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PoW, what is it and why do we want PoS

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Rewarding More Significant Wealth?

In an ideal system, you wouldn't necessarily want people to stake as much money as possible because it adds little value above. But staking above that lower bound, I'm not convinced that should actually be encouraged at all. It seems like there's some balancing act going on. They're trying to encourage it. You want people to become validators because that removes this mining only energy consumption idea.You want them to have a certain lower limit of value that they can stake so that somebody couldn't just get a bunch of validators with very little money validating and potentially corrupted. There's definitely a tent. So on the low end, it's easy. You just enforce it. On

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