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What happens when staking rewards hit zero before 100% of ETH is staked? It doesn't strengthen Ethereum—it turns staking into a survival game. 🧐 Let's be honest: reaching 100% staking is almost impossible. And if it somehow happened, rewards naturally dropping toward zero would make sense. No issue there. The real problem begins when rewards are designed to reach zero at some point before 100% participation. Imagine staking demand rises above 50% of all ETH—as most current issuance proposals expect. Rewards collapse to zero, and the waiting game begins. Who survives? Not the solo stakers. Not the small operators who helped build Ethereum's decentralization over the years. The winners are the giants—organizations with deep pockets that can afford to operate at a loss for months, waiting for smaller participants to give up. Once enough people leave, rewards become positive again, and power becomes even more concentrated. That's not decentralization. That's economic warfare. ⚔️ Any curve that forces staking yields to zero before full network participation isn't neutral—it's a mechanism that favors the biggest players and squeezes out everyone else. After spending the last five years working to make Ethereum more decentralized and resilient, I can't see this proposal as anything other than a step in the wrong direction. So the real question is: Do we want an Ethereum secured by millions of independent participants, or one controlled by the few entities wealthy enough to survive a zero-yield battlefield? 🤔 #DailyOrbit