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It appears to me you just quoted some out-of-the air claims from Algorand and presented already disproven arguments from earlier in the thread, such 'argumentum ad autoritatem' (
Turing award winner.....).
For instance,
not forking is not a measure of security. Besides the fact that you never explained how they want to have a decentralized system but at the same time never have a collision. Besides the fact that this was never the question. The question was never 'Is it more secure?' or 'How is Algorand more secure?', but it was: 'How do we solve these 2 essential problems we believe PoS to have?'.
No matter what amount of fancy stuff you build on top of PoS; if PoS is flawed, it's all meaningless. That's why I'd like you to stay focused on BlackHatCoiner's main questions and not overrun us with masses of quotes and arguments that don't answer the questions.
The failure by the btc cult to recognize that the energy abundance of the past few decades is changing ,
so that for most countries holding 1st world status will be unattainable.
In short, governments are most likely not going to be able to keep the lights on 24x7,
much less have the capacity for an overly wasteful PoW mining using up resources that are in short supply.
So unless one of the BTC cultist can build a Dyson sphere, even the current energy % wasted by PoW mining will be unsustainable very soon.
This was all not the question, but I'd like to point out that history has shown that having an abundance of energy and using the excess e.g. for mining is always better than saving energy at every corner. Energy moves humanity forward and Bitcoin mining pushes the energy sector to produce more of it, especially renewable. I see this as a big win. But it still doesn't answer the questions:
Why Proof of Stake cannot produce consensus
Why Proof of Stake centralizes the system
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I address to PoS-ers to come to this thread and constructively argue with the above assertions or if they don't disagree, to spell out why PoW is worse. This was just my opinion; anyone's free to support the other side. I didn't type this title for no reason.