In response to "a lot of ethereum community members privately expressing the wish that it had stuck with pow instead of transitioning to pos", Vitalik said: PoW was also quite centralized. It was just not talked about as much, because everyone knew it was only a temporary stage until PoS. And that doesn't even get into how we probably mostly avoided ASICs only because the upcoming PoS switch meant no incentive to build them. twitter.com/VitalikButerin/sta...…