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> Another aspect of this is 51% attacks are recoverable for PoW

You can switch the protocol once. Making ASICs useless. But you can't do it twice.

> but are a permanent takeover condition for PoS networks.

This is false in both theory and practice. It is true that PoS does not offer in-protocol solution for the problem. But there is a historical precedent of people forking away money of Justin Sun in Steem project, creating Hive. Community has followed the fork, basically destroying Justin's Sun funds.

parent exo762 5 years ago

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