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Re:Children Playing Blockchain by sparkie on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @04:00PM (#26404174)
In the PoS game, the stakers must be trusted to report their dice roll accurately. To overcome this, you would need some kind of random oracle which can't be influenced by any of the participants.

The best random oracle we know is of course, Proof-of-Work.

Re:Children Playing Blockchain by kang on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @05:25PM (#26405228)
Basically this.

You, a mathematician, walk into the class to purchase a brick to label.

The first class has solved sudokus with deterministic difficulty to prove they did work to build the structure, whereas in the second class you have just dice sums & have to trust them telling you they rolled the diced only every fixed interval etc. It's distributed but not decentralized.