Re:Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus
by tsimionescu on Sunday November 28, 2021 @03:59AM
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I think the biggest problem with his whole argument is when he wants to give some examples of community consensus being a problem, and gave examples from the PoW world (Bitcoin small block size decision, Ethereum bhard fork) - that to me complety destroyed his own argument that PoS is more community-dependent than PoW.
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Re:Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus
by lilyball on Sunday November 28, 2021 @05:05AM
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Those two examples were demonstrating what happens when you don't have provable consensus. They weren't issues with the validity of the blockchain, but debates over changing the software itself. They're good examples of why centralized development of a decentralized protocol still opens up the software to attacks (though with the option of continuing the blockchain without the software change, as Ethereum Classic did for a while), and demonstrates why having a provable consensus mechanism is important.