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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Proof of Stake Bitcoin?
by
QlooQl
on 26/09/2017, 15:05:58 UTC
DO you guys ever think that bitcoin will do proof of stake? Just wanted to get some peoples insights on this.

No, because PoS doesn't work as a decentralised consensus. Every single PoS coin is a private club, with trusted owners, much like Visa the company is. When you invest in a PoS coin you are being tricked into thinking you're investing in the future, when actually you're investing something that can never work as designed.

Read this for more details:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1382241.0

Cheers, Paul.

Wow ouch. That's like saying the stock market doesn't work because only the original owners and a few wealthy shareholders get to make all the rules. Shareholders do still put pressure on companies, even small shareholders. I guess if you thought the design of PoS was total democracy you are right...PoS won't create democracy. But heck, neither does the US voting system.