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Re:Cryptocurrency Blockchains Don’t Need to Be Energy Intensive by billytetrud on Monday July 05, 2021 @01:15PM (#27739948)
> On PoS, there's no such limitation

There is no significant computational effort needed, but it is incorrect to say that PoS protocols do not limit the number of blocks that can be created. Most PoS systems do in fact have such a limitation.

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Re:Cryptocurrency Blockchains Don’t Need to Be Energy Intensive by kerkeslager on Monday July 05, 2021 @05:24PM (#27741958)
Not one that can be verified by looking at the chain.

I encourage you to read the first paper I linked, instead of continuing to respond to parts of my posts out of context.

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