Bitcoin needs to stop the environmental disaster and move away from Proof-of-Work (PoW) to Proof-of-Stake (PoS). This is what I am reading more and more often. The people issuing this type of opinion are from all sides: politicians, economists, bankers, investors, ...
If they are on all sides, they all share at least one thing: they still don't understand the why of Bitcoin.
Those who do understand the why of Bitcoin know very well that the Proof-of-Work is essential to the incredible monetary revolution represented by Bitcoin. Let me remind you that Bitcoin's goal is to offer decentralized and encrypted hard money to everyone.
The Proof-of-Work guarantees that each participant in the network has the same weight as the other participants
The Proof-of-Work is precisely what allows Bitcoin to be a decentralized, but above all secure, leaderless system. The Proof-of-Stake only reproduces the flaws of the current monetary and financial system to the Blockchain. How? By giving more power to a minority of people who own more coins or tokens than the others.
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