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Re:Ghash.io very close to 51% of bitcoin pool by darkFunction on Thursday January 09, 2014 @08:41AM (#7030372)
Proof-of-stake attempts better enforcement of decentralisation, but I think the various implementations are pretty immature.
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Re:Ghash.io very close to 51% of bitcoin pool by unlimited_power on Thursday January 09, 2014 @09:04AM (#7030486)
I encourage people to look at the paper Transactions as Proof-of-Stake & The End of Mining[0] defining a form of the idea. BitShares[1] (due out in Q2 2014) will implement this.

[0] https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=1138.0

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BV55IrZi7g

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