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Re:A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency by keymone on Monday February 18, 2019 @04:42PM (#19194739)
It’s natural way of life. If a system is subject to being controlled by political process, which PoS is unlike PoW, it will eventually be overrun by politicians. Just common sense.
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Re:A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency by darawk on Monday February 18, 2019 @08:25PM (#19195994)
And which political processes exactly is PoS subject to that PoW is not?
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Re:A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency by keymone on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @01:27AM (#19197050)
Ordering transactions.
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Re:A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency by darawk on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @12:19PM (#19200693)
Hm? How so? PoW miners can reorder transactions too. How is this different?
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Re:A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency by keymone on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @01:34PM (#19201472)
they cannot without expending large amount of energy and even then it will look extremely shady to both old and new nodes. in pos you can generate an entire new blockchain from genesis and new nodes won't have a clue which chain is "real" while old nodes will be very much confused having to make a decision on the split and reorg.

point is - pos is based on trust, pow is based on laws of physics.

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