• Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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    8 months ago

    How does proof of stake not become more expensive, slow, and power hungry the more people use it?

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      In PoS the constraint on mining is proportional to the amount of tokens you own. Not the electricity/computational power you have.

      Tokens are confiscated if you mine dishonestly.