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minus-squareMatty Roses@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoThat’s PoW. With PoS, it is coin ownership. Which is much more distributed than computing power.
minus-squarekwarg@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoI’m not an expert, but I never understood why people would prefer PoS over PoW. Indeed, the latter requires to “waste” larger amounts of energy, but doesn’t PoS favor rich groups of people colluding against the blockchain timeline?
minus-squareAtHeartEngineer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-224 days ago27DQg3nlWmjuuP0PtUxKaIvXBV1zNBW5ia8mfDAcD3jIAYerrArlMJ4v188akEb0
That’s PoW. With PoS, it is coin ownership.
Which is much more distributed than computing power.
I’m not an expert, but I never understood why people would prefer PoS over PoW. Indeed, the latter requires to “waste” larger amounts of energy, but doesn’t PoS favor rich groups of people colluding against the blockchain timeline?
27DQg3nlWmjuuP0PtUxKaIvXBV1zNBW5ia8mfDAcD3jIAYerrArlMJ4v188akEb0