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Topic: PoS vs POW (Which one would you like?) - page 3. (Read 429 times)

member
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July 01, 2018, 09:54:46 PM
#10
I prefer the POS mechanism because it is more environmentally friendly.
The POW mechanism requires a large amount of power resources to excavate and may face 51% attacks.
legendary
Activity: 3108
Merit: 1029
July 01, 2018, 09:49:22 PM
#9
This market now has both POS and POW based projects,and both of them have their own unique characteristics.

POS(Low energy consumption negligible to that of proof of work)
POW(Generation of blocks using computing power)

-Now, as a investor which one is your first choice and why?

-Which one is gonna be the winner in the long run?(I'm bullish on POS though).

I will choose POS because it's more conservative than POW and remember there is a lot of way to make it even more decentralized soon. Remember there will be inflation if you are seeing about so many miners are dumping it anytime. POS has fixed supply and that's really fair in my opinion.
full member
Activity: 152
Merit: 100
July 01, 2018, 09:49:00 PM
#8
PoS definitely for me, as I don't have the powerful workers like ASCI. Also it looks like PoS now attracts more and more research.
newbie
Activity: 25
Merit: 0
July 01, 2018, 09:37:47 PM
#7
PoW is what miners do. It's like "cracking the password of the last block". Because each last block has a password of sorts, if you can show what that password is to other miners, you've proven that you've done "work" since it requires effort to crack passwords. The difficulty of the password is automatically adjusted to make keep the "password cracking" at a fixed rate (10 min bitcoin, 12 seconds ETH)

PoS is Proof Of Stake - it's like saying, "pretend I've cracked the password because I can prove I own a lot of ETH so I could've bought mining equipment and actually cracked it if I wanted to". It's like a virtual mining of sorts.
jr. member
Activity: 151
Merit: 5
July 01, 2018, 09:37:36 PM
#6
I have couple of shit POW long term coin that I think it will be benefit sometime in long future. All the rest are POS. Most of them are POS. My reason is simple, not because of the energy wasting (because thats part of the game, you run the system, you spend the energy), I hold POS coin because I can get stakes, its always good to see the money gave birth to its child (although sometime its only raise the number of your coin, not the dollar value)
member
Activity: 210
Merit: 10
July 01, 2018, 09:36:18 PM
#5
I think POS and POW have their own advantages.
Then, both POS and POW have many excellent tokens. It is important to select excellent tokens rather than to consider the mechanism. Grin
newbie
Activity: 29
Merit: 0
July 01, 2018, 09:36:04 PM
#4
My understanding is that:

In POW, getting the right answer is very hard and expensive, and you get rewarded for getting it.

In POS, getting the right answer is very easy, but getting the wrong answer is very expensive, because you get punished for getting it.

POW rewards doing the right thing.

POS punishes doing the wrong thing.
newbie
Activity: 98
Merit: 0
July 01, 2018, 09:29:28 PM
#3
POS is the future but not as the way traditional POS coins did it. POW is just a waste of precious energy.
Masternodes are an effective way to implement POS, a quicker and effective way to solve transactions.
Ethereum is also said to be working on an improved version of POS.

Yeah. I agree with you,most of my holdings are POS.
legendary
Activity: 3150
Merit: 1069
July 01, 2018, 02:29:17 AM
#2
POS is the future but not as the way traditional POS coins did it. POW is just a waste of precious energy.
Masternodes are an effective way to implement POS, a quicker and effective way to solve transactions.
Ethereum is also said to be working on an improved version of POS.
newbie
Activity: 98
Merit: 0
July 01, 2018, 01:54:24 AM
#1
This market now has both POS and POW based projects,and both of them have their own unique characteristics.

POS(Low energy consumption negligible to that of proof of work)
POW(Generation of blocks using computing power)

-Now, as a investor which one is your first choice and why?

-Which one is gonna be the winner in the long run?(I'm bullish on POS though).
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