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Christine Kim (Galaxy Research) on the merge and what comes next (EP.353)

On The Brink with Castle Island

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The Importance of Staking Pools and Mining Pools on Ethereum

The concern is that the amount of stake that a individual or an entity controls. That's directly what enables them to be validators on Ethereum. And in order to be a validator, you need to stake at least 32 ETH. So the importance of staking pools and large amounts of ETH getting concentrated to a single entity can significantly damage the liveliness of Etherum.

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