>other important pieces of the puzzle to need a lot of resources to the point where they become businesses and are on the governments radar (and by extension th

>other important pieces of the puzzle to need a lot of resources to the point where they become businesses and are on the governments radar (and by extension they would need to comply with regulations). >But because everyone knows that is a natural consequence of POS, it is exactly why no reasonable person would be on board with a transition to it. You described mining - public companies operating big industrial warehouses with miners. PoS is the opposite - it needs next to zero physical resources. No reasonable person can support PoW unless they support totalitarianism. There's no way to make PoW resistant to government interference.