The innovation behind PoW is precisely the fact that it *doesn't* rely exclusively on software (an abstraction) to keep the ledger systemically secure, but instead incorporates real-world physics (watts) to impose real-world physical constraints on p

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Hugo Nguyen @hugohanoi · Sep 21, 2022

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Great thread. I’m 100% aligned with @JasonPLowery on PoW as long as he stays away from the “PoW is violence” analogy. 🙂 Violence is also an abstraction, the same way stake is an abstraction. Whereas energy usage is rooted in physics. Ground your arguments in math/physics (!).

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The innovation behind PoW is precisely the fact that it *doesn't* rely exclusively on software (an abstraction) to keep the ledger systemically secure, but instead incorporates real-world physics (watts) to impose real-world physical constraints on p

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