After a session of AI psychosis I feel like I’m more on side of Rootsocks than before.
Ethereum finality is only relevant in the context of a PoS chain, Rootstock being PoW means you can just count confirmations instead.
As for reorgs, Rootstock has multiple preventive measures (Armadillo, Timestamp linking with Bitcoin’s main chain, transparent double spending trails etc), mostly trading availability for consistency (it stops validating blocks when an attack is detected).
Basically, the worst case scenario for ethereum is solved through “social recovery”, meaning the community has to pick a chain to call ethereum arbitrarily (this already happened in the past due to consensus bugs).
Now Rootstock, even if its defenses fail, worst thing that could happen is what, a depeg? Sure, that would suck for them but for inkan there wouldn’t be the subjective problem of choosing which delegation history is canonical. The consensus rules of PoW take care of that.
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2026-10-13 20:15:35 UTC
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