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Re:Delaying the Inevitable: Muir Glacier and the Ethereum Di... by leppr on Friday January 03, 2020 @03:49PM (#21950193)
Permissioned networks are a very much easier setting to design a consensus protocol for than public ones.

Describing a consensus algorithm as "Proof of Stake" simply means it uses some kind of stake to secure its decisions, this doesn't say anything about the assumptions it starts from.

Existing "PoS" blockchains don't have the same decentralization goals as Ethereum.

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Re:Delaying the Inevitable: Muir Glacier and the Ethereum Di... by yodsanklai on Friday January 03, 2020 @03:57PM (#21950271)
> Existing "PoS" blockchains don't have the same decentralization goals as Ethereum.

What about Cardano and Tezos? aren't they decentralized PoS blockchains?

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Re:Delaying the Inevitable: Muir Glacier and the Ethereum Di... by ddrdrck_ on Saturday January 04, 2020 @02:49PM (#21956991)
And Cosmos
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Re:Delaying the Inevitable: Muir Glacier and the Ethereum Di... by exdsq on Friday January 03, 2020 @07:10PM (#21951726)
“Existing ‘PoS’ blockchains don't have the same decentralization goals as Ethereum.”

What makes you think this?

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Re:Delaying the Inevitable: Muir Glacier and the Ethereum Di... by Semaphor on Friday January 03, 2020 @04:37PM (#21950648)
How is Ark less decentralized?
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