Re:New study quantifies Bitcoin’s ludicrous energy consumption
by kimsk112 on Thursday May 17, 2018 @10:55AM
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Why has it taken so long? I thought this would happen in 2017.
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Re:New study quantifies Bitcoin’s ludicrous energy consumption
by lostmsu on Thursday May 17, 2018 @03:04PM
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Because there are still issues with the idea of PoS. Major one AFAIK is that there's nothing preventing miners mining a fork in addition to the "main" chain, which destroys consensus on which chain is the main chain.