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pamplemoose | 4 years ago

or you can fork and remove the bad actors, burning all their coins. good luck with their next attack. in contrast, you can't burn an attackers fleet of miners

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micropresident|4 years ago

What do you think a PoW change does when the PoW is being done by ASICs?

Slashing stake is significantly more arbitrary. You basically need to reset the coin's ledger in order for it to make any sense.

nootropicat|4 years ago

>What do you think a PoW change does when the PoW is being done by ASICs

It's only possible once, and this move is so obviously predictable any determined attacker is going to have gpus ready.