If I can vote, I will choose PoS, definitely. It's better than PoW, in general
Why do you think proof of stake is better? Better for whom - new folks or whales? How or why is one better than the other?
PoW - waste of electricity
PoW, if not in Top10 coins, can be easy 51% attacked
PoS - users keep wallet always online
PoS - checkpoint server or master nodes
I assume you think that online wallets and/or centralized servers/nodes are good things - why do you think that?
I agree that POW uses more electricity than other options, and agree that it's a negative for POW.
I don't agree with your Top 10/51% metric, because while smaller coins
can be attacked, there's no financial incentive to do so. Once there's financial incentive, the network's larger and more difficult to 51%.
I like that more users would keep a wallet online in a POS scenario, yet I know from working with one POS project and holding other POS coins (all of which turned into real 'pos' coins
) that while users
can keep wallets online, most don't.
Checkpoint servers decentralize the network - that's a non-starter for crypto.
Masternodes are good for pump and dump coins as the rush to stand-up master nodes temporarily pushes coin value up, which triggers a massive profittaking that pushes the value lower than when it starts. It's a classic biologic overshoot scenario. It keeps happening (a friend of mine got sucked into one 2 months ago - the rush to stand up nodes played out like a Ponzi scheme - the early whales sold out and everyone else got left with scraps) yet folks chasing the siren's call of quick profits keep falling for it.
Welcome aboard!