Jameson Lopp: Cypherpunk, Bitcoin
Crypto Voices
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Proof of Stake vs Proof of Work
The big problem with proof of stake is that there's always this long range attack issue. I prefer having a real world external resource rather than one internal to the network so you know basically staking some sort of value of tokens or or reputation on the network itself. An attacker who had like 100% of the current hashing power would pretty much have to expend it for like a year if they were going to go back in and rewrite the whole blockchain. We've touched on a lot of uh very interesting topics today really appreciate your time appreciate uh ridolfo novak for putting us through our paces.
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