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Re:The future of cryptocurrency is at stake in Ethereum’s sw... by operator-name on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @05:24PM (#32757145)
Yes, I'm not denying that.

The question was why "opex is the part that tethers on-chain security to reality", and opex specifically.

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Re:The future of cryptocurrency is at stake in Ethereum’s sw... by wyager on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @08:19PM (#32759260)
Opex specifically because we don't have a predicative algorithm for proving capex. The only predicative value-proof algorithm we have is PoW, which works on opex. PoS is completely impredicative.
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