Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, Proof-of-Stake, The Future of Bitcoin
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I Think It's a Good Idea to Replace Gold Mining
Gold mining is even worse, because its people wasting resources in order to acquire gold. And on on top of that, you have negative environmental externalities. If be qin takes the rount of specializing in order to replace gold, which i think it should, then it probably makes sense for it to just be as conservative as pa bes,. So being conservative as gs is one aspect. The other aspect is that the bigin community is is seems to be to a very large degree dedicated to the concept of proof of work.
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