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Re:Taproot, Bitcoin’s long-anticipated upgrade, has activated by baby on Monday November 15, 2021 @04:51PM (#29233273)
It's highly unlikely that Bitcoin will move towards a proof of stake protocol without strong incentives (like regulations). The whole point of the proof of stake was to make the protocol censorship resistant.
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Re:Taproot, Bitcoin’s long-anticipated upgrade, has activated by atweiden on Monday November 15, 2021 @05:56PM (#29234053)
> Overcoming censorship is not possible in a PoS system, as the censor has acquired majority stake and cannot be unseated. As such PoS systems are not censorship-resistant and the theory is therefore invalid.

https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-system/wiki/Proof-o...

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Re:Taproot, Bitcoin’s long-anticipated upgrade, has activated by baby on Monday November 15, 2021 @08:31PM (#29235503)
I meant proof of work :)

Although in theory you still need to find who owns these accounts in a proof of stake system. So it’s not as bad as what people think.

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