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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: PoS is far inferior to PoW - why are so many people advocating switching to PoS
by
phillipsjk
on 11/11/2014, 03:40:20 UTC
You can't mathematically prove it, because the other stake-holders can roll back to any point of time of their choosing.

That's why I said that PoS 1 != PoS 2 != PoS 3. There is at least one PoS implementation where what you just said is not possible.

The NXT prohibition on deep re-orgs just makes such re-orgs a manual process if/when they they happen.

Edit: Bitcoin proper now implements something similar called "safe mode". This was implemented after the last major Blockchain fork