Re: The most iconic bitcointalk threads. History on Bitcointalk.

Quote from: Chlotide on April 16, 2020, 07:47:58 AM

Quote from: xtraelv on April 16, 2020, 03:04:14 AM

There are plenty of people around on this forum that are less well known and have made massive contributions to bitcoin and crypto in general.

Just a few of them.

As far as I know POS was also mentioned here first: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=27787.0
Might want to add it to the list :p

Saw you mention this thread somewhere else and thought to ask here as well so it would not get lost in the noise.

From what I can tell POS was presented first on bitcointalk

Exhibit A:

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Proof of Stake (PoS) was first introduced in a paper by Sunny King and Scott Nadal in 2012 and intended to solve the problem of Bitcoin minings high energy consumption

link: https://cointelegraph.com/news/the-history-and-evolution-of-proof-of-stake

Exhibit B:

Quote from: QuantumMechanic on July 11, 2011, 04:12:45 AM

I've got an idea, and I'm wondering if it's been discussed/ripped apart here yet:

I'm wondering if as bitcoins become more widely distributed, whether a transition from a proof of work based system to a proof of stake one might happen. What I mean by proof of stake is that instead of your "vote" on the accepted transaction history being weighted by the share of computing resources you bring to the network, it's weighted by the number of bitcoins you can prove you own, using your private keys.

If this is the case this QuantumMechanic guy should definitely be added on the list of "Notable people" imo, even tho this one one of his last posts here...