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		mixedCase on June 29, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bitcoin is the only coin the SEC Chair will call a... On a "whim" in so far as miners agree on the change.

0des on June 29, 2022 | [–]

And that change took years for everyone to standardize and design and then agree on to activate.

Vespasian on June 29, 2022 | [–]

Miners have no say in it.

They "only" participate in the on chain consensus while the switch to PoS is governed by the underlying social consensus of what code to run.

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