Quote from: TPTB_need_war on December 21, 2015, 02:49:44 AM

Quote from: smooth on December 21, 2015, 02:42:47 AM

Actually now that I think about it, the ability of stakeholders to hard fork in PoS is pretty clear. That's another way the consensus of PoS is absolutely weaker than PoW.

Yeah that is also the point I made to CoinHoarder today. I added a link to that point to the [1] footnote in the post with the comparison table. Those links will serve as a summary reference for us on the PoS vs. PoW issue.

Smooth, monsterer, Blockstream et al, I wish some of you with more resources than me could working from the following links and produce a more coherent white paper better explaining the distinction between the security model of PoS vs. PoW:

Quote from: TPTB_need_war on December 20, 2015, 05:19:07 PM

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I can't do it any time soon. I realize my highly functional limit is about 8 hours a day on the computer. Any more than that and I am zombified and just wasting a lot time being 50% coherent and getting ill.

I've heard from numerous people that the computer monitor stimulates cortisol and accumulated damage (especially from resisting sleep and a tired mind) is devastating.

All of you who are younger than me, this might eventually catch up to you. Make sure you get your breaks off the computer and outside. Once you enter pathological neuro-degenerative disease, even simple things of daily life become difficult and life looses its happy and enjoying moments. Do not think you are Superman, because you are not. You are human.