Mining fees in a proof of stake system are much lower. You can run a validator node on a VPS for three bucks a month or like on your home computer. There is still costs to becoming a miner because you need to acquire all the tokens, but generally the costs,. I guess, are lower, much lower friction to become a miner.
In this Blockchain 101 episode, we sit down with Axel Ericsson of Vest (previously 1Protocol) to talk about Cryptoeconomic Primitives, incentive models, designing smart equilibria, and staking.
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