The person who should be most protected across the network is @VitalikButerin. If $eth had not transitioned from the PoW consensus mechanism to PoS back in the day, and if the PoW consensus were still in place, combined with the current AI super cycle, I believe that those holding $ETH and owning GPU mining rigs would be the biggest winners. The market would see a flourishing of the PoW sector: 1. Graphics cards, memory, hard drives, and precious metals would continue to soar, with mining coins and $eth being the most breakout assets. Traditional capital loves to buy mining rigs for mining, and they can also make money "legally and compliantly"; 2. The PoW consensus would raise the costs of mining coins like $ETH, making it no longer a zero-cost one-click issuance; 3. The mining output mechanism of PoW consensus public chains + economic models would be completely different from PoS public chains. Initially, for the sake of efficiency and cost, the fundamental consensus of decentralization that existed in the crypto space was overlooked; If the PoW consensus were still in place, breaking $1w for $eth would not be a problem. Just the hardware alone would be very valuable, and it could also connect to the super narrative of AI, with waves of stories to tell!