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Re:Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus by seoaeu on Sunday November 28, 2021 @08:37AM (#29368791)
What stops miners from sending their tokens somewhere, then hard forking from a previous block where they didn’t send them?

This has a clear answer in PoW, but not in your scheme

Re:Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus by lottin on Sunday November 28, 2021 @09:32AM (#29369170)
Easy, you put the transaction in the previous block. So the miner can only mine a block if they have already made the expenditure.
Re:Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus by ogogmad on Sunday November 28, 2021 @10:23AM (#29369549)
What if I create a whole new chain? Will the transactions at the very beginning of that chain have to be added to the big, old chain? How far back do the common ancestors of two chains have to be for your auto-merging to happen? What happens if two histories conflict? Then in Version Control parlance, we have a "merge conflict".
Re:Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus by seoaeu on Sunday November 28, 2021 @09:58AM (#29369352)
What stops me from doing a hard fork to roll back both blocks?
Re:Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus by lottin on Sunday November 28, 2021 @10:54AM (#29369854)
If you spend more tokens than the tokens that were spent mining the last two blocks you can erase the transactions in those blocks, but isn't that also the case with PoW?
Re:Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus by seoaeu on Sunday November 28, 2021 @12:29PM (#29370825)
You aren’t following. The hard fork lets me double spend the tokens from those blocks.
Re:Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus by lottin on Sunday November 28, 2021 @01:54PM (#29371696)
Indeed, I'm not following your argument.
Re:Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus by ogogmad on Sunday November 28, 2021 @04:03PM (#29372999)
Stop asking people to do your homework.