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Re:Bitmain, the largest mining hardware company, made around... by GhostVII on Saturday February 24, 2018 @08:27AM (#16453166)
Proof of work is the same, except instead of rich people buying more Etherium to get rich faster, they buy more mining hardware.
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Re:Bitmain, the largest mining hardware company, made around... by nosuchthing on Monday February 26, 2018 @06:39AM (#16464616)
Not entirely, PoS disqualifies poor accounts from receiving newly minted block rewards.
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