There is plenty of information and discussion about PoS : PPCoin is of course the currency with longest history in PoS..
CGB has good developers who are endeavouring to make the best decisions at an early stage of what is, after all, still experimental software.
I really am not qualified to pronounce on the technicals, but it seems to me that a network composed of a very large amount of 'dust' ie vast numbers of users each with low hash power, is the most secure for either PoW or PoS.
Transaction fees on 'dust' is going to kill any/all Alt/Digital coins.
I've been gathering dust from BTC BitCoin Faucets and went to send the dust I'd accumulated to an exchange only to find the dust didn't even cover the transaction fee.
If any coin is worth (say) $200 per coin then a $10.50 transaction (eg a short taxi ride -
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/r4report/rss.xml) would end up nearly doubling when the transaction fee is added on.
CGB
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