Quote from: d5000 on September 21, 2017, 01:37:03 AM

Quote from: Jerfer on September 20, 2017, 11:48:49 PM

But doesn't this just make it all more centralized? It's not a coin i can support

The main chain / child chain architecture as such does not make Ardor more "centralized". The whole network is still maintained by pure Proof of Stake. There are people who sustain that PoS is a consensus method that leads to centralization, but I don't share this belief.

What is partly centralized - and is a major point I criticise and I hope still [naively] it could change some day - is the development model of Nxt/Ardor. The developers work mostly "behind closed doors". They share the source code when they release new versions, but now the license is not FSF/OSI-compliant anymore, because they're too afraid of clones.

I thought proof of work was a better way for decentralization than pos