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You mean proof of stake? Is there a working implementation of proof of stake yet? I thought it was mostly theoretical and academic at the moment.
by Cakez0r 9y ago
You mean proof of stake? Is there a working implementation of proof of stake yet? I thought it was mostly theoretical and academic at the moment.
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- stale2002 9y agoNo, I meant proof of work. You change the proof of work algorithm so that the existing miners can't use their fancy Bitcoin miners, and it becomes profitable to mine with GPUs instead.
- peercoin 9y agoalgorand is academic at this point with evaluation on ec2. Though the paper is available and an implementation will be following. Peercoin is one of the first working proof of stake implementations that has been running for close to 5 years now.
- 6nf 9y agoThere are a few altcoins using Proof of Stake already