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Re:Blockchains are the new Linux, not the new Internet by terhechte on Sunday May 28, 2017 @05:16PM (#14436119)
This is wrong. Ethereum's proof of stake algorithm is named Casper, and is already open source, you can see the repository here:

https://github.com/ethereum/casper

There's even a Github project where you can see that the current state is work on the "Fork choice/chain logic". This was started 6 days ago:

https://github.com/ethereum/casper/projects/1

The next release (Metropolis) will afaik contain a first implementation of proof of stake which will run in parallel with their proof of work algorithm (last I heard was that every 1000th transaction will be run via proof of stake, but I may be wrong here).

Re:Blockchains are the new Linux, not the new Internet by cslarson on Sunday May 28, 2017 @06:07PM (#14436304)
I don't think the metropolis release will include any POS based consensus.