The article complains about gas fees, how will they change after ETH2?

eth2 (which is more than just proof of stake) aims to substantially reduce the fees by allowing the network to scale up (I think the current target is 100,000 transactions a second). This is partly enabled by proof of stake and partly enabled by other stuff like sharding.

things_that_have_been_said_since_2017_but_have_not_happened.txt

Sorry, can't find that.

Eth2.0 is actually filed under things_that_are_very_hard_to_research_develop_and_deploy_to_production_as_they_are_currently_supporting_a_200_billion_market.txt

I found one with a quick Google search (actually even earlier, 2016).

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> Ethereum hopes to do away with mining by early 2017.

> They're switching to proof of stake. Early PoS designs have some issues, like the infamous "nothing at stake" problem, but theirs addresses those.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12128406