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Proof of work will always be an expensive way to secure a ledger, with little in the way of real advantages.

"Distributed" sounds nice, but it isn't really that valuable in the end.

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PoW doesn't even lead to good distribution as we can see since a few years and more importantly its not needed. We have Federated Byzantine Agreement (FBA) "blockchians" since like 8 years and it beats PoW by any metric.

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0 pointsmaxerickson4y ago0 comments

Proof of work will always be an expensive way to secure a ledger, with little in the way of real advantages.

"Distributed" sounds nice, but it isn't really that valuable in the end.

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noxer4y ago

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