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Re:Blockchains Considered Harmful: Is Brute-Force Processing... by aeternus on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @08:39PM (#15606862)
>decide, later on, which chains hold value

How? Who decides?

This is really where every PoS algorithm seems to break down. The whole idea of blockchain is to build a decentralized consensus, and PoS just handwaves it away.

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Re:Blockchains Considered Harmful: Is Brute-Force Processing... by diegocerdan on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @09:44PM (#15607168)
>Who decides?

Every user of the system.

>How?

Mostly by taking in consideration the differences of the software from both chains.

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