Camo I value your opinion and appreciate the response.
I see POW as a giant waste of resources, and a remnant of networks needs from the PAST. I can see why POW brings value to coins that aren't blessed with a MN network. We trust MN network to denom our coins and sign transactions, but we can't trust it create blocks? I see value in the hybrid solution, but it seems like a much less elegant solution. Think of the security gains of having a perfectly distributed block generation between 900-3000 actors. It just seems to me like POW is a remnant from past times and not necessary for us.
Your view suits you, but it isn't a big-picture view. It concerns only that which you hold valuable.
Many people who live in the city see my way of life and backwards and stupid simply because they are so detached from reality that they have no idea that people like me are the reason they're alive. Without me and my way of life, none of the stuff they take for granted and mooch off of would even exist. There are very, very good reasons why PoW should never be done away with. "Anybody can contribute" is the top of the list. It allows anyone to put in hashpower and be a part of why it can't fail, and they get something back for their trouble. If they don't want to, they can run a MN instead. It's important for people on one side of the hybrid proof not to get too arrogant and forget that they wouldn't exist without the other. We could use any single proof system, but that will never be as good as a combination of proof systems working together, even if they are vestigial and artificial in nature.
It's software, the whole thing is made up and not real. I just trapped a squirrel. It's gonna be nummy. Cruel? Backwards? Barbaric? Not full of chemicals and hormones, tastes awesome, didn't burn gas driving to a store, didn't spend any money, can use the guts to setline me some catfish, use the catfish guts as bait for... You can easily find ways to knock something, but that ignores the upsides... Just because you don't do it or you don't like it or you can't understand it, doesn't mean it's bad or worthless. I wouldn't expect many people to hunt squirrel with a shotgun in the inner city... So, the lack of experience begets a lack of understanding. You're always expending resources, it's just a matter of where you get them and if you waste them. Waste not, want not... I was homeless a few years ago, now everything is paid for. What backwards hillbilly am I, while all the fools I shared the street with are still homeless or dead... Apartment dwellers are still barely making it month-to-month, making excuses why it's everyone else's fault...
Don't walk away from something that works just because you can't/won't figure out how to leverage it. PoW is brutality paradox genius and should always exist, it's a "damn nature, you scary" way of doing things that many people just won't understand because they're too detached from the truth; humanity is the lowest animal. Mining takes greed, selfishness, and stupidity and turns them into a strength for the coin. It lest the coin feed of of humanity's lowest truths, whether humanity wants to admit what it is or not. The fact that mining can be so crude and still be so bulletproof shows us what we really are. Denying that won't make it go away, and won't make PoW worthless.
