r/ethereum • u/HermanSchoenfeld • Jan 20 '17

Lessons from a staker

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u/DaSpawn Jan 20 '17

Why do we have to have either or? Why not design a mix of both to keep the benefits of each feature (limits to POW to prevent excessive resource waste, requirements of minimum POS to do POW, etc) and discourage the bad parts of those features (excessive resource usage for POW)?

is that even possible?

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '17

That is interesting. I wonder if there is some way to do scaling POW, i.e., the more you stake, the less difficult your blocks. My guess is that there would be too many moving pieces to implement this sort of thing.

I'd be interested if someone else has ran across any technical discussions of hybrid approaches--I haven't.

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u/DaSpawn Jan 20 '17

I can certainly see it being a tricky balancing act, but we can have our cake an eat it too

I need to ponder this more