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Re:Ethereum Plans to Cut Its Energy Consumption by 99 Percent by bouncycastle on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @10:43PM (#18812646)
Nope, if an attacker does something bad (eg. a group forms a 51% cartel and starts censoring transactions), then they can be forked out and their stake slashed in the fork that doesn't censor the transactions. I really do not see a problem here? It's even better security than PoW, because once the attackers have their stake slashed, they can't attack anymore. With PoW, the miners can keep on doing a 51% attack even after the fork, indefinitely.

PoS is way more secure.

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Re:Ethereum Plans to Cut Its Energy Consumption by 99 Percent by adrianN on Thursday January 03, 2019 @01:51AM (#18813378)
...if you trust a minority to decide who is an attacker and who isn't.
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Re:Ethereum Plans to Cut Its Energy Consumption by 99 Percent by dekz on Thursday January 03, 2019 @02:31AM (#18813506)
It's pretty clear when you validate the transactions
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