• RedDoozer@lemmy.zip
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    5 months ago

    All your points are about an obsolete idea of Bitcoin, a PoW public blockchain. A PoS private blockchain with private keys not handled by the users would invalidate your entire list.

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      5 months ago

      PoS centralizes the authority to whoever is richest. That’s literally worse than how paper currency with semi corrupt government works.

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        5 months ago

        The PoS option was to highlight that power consumption doesn’t have to be an issue. Of course, PoS has its own issues.

        The network can use any other type of proof, like Proof of Authority where only a buch of validators owned by the banking system can process the transactions. The network can be even tokenless, no profit or incentives from it, just the secure architecture.

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      4 months ago

      All my points? That’s a bit rich

      You make a good point that PoS would solve one of the issues I raised which is electricity usage.

      In theory it could also increase throughput and reduce costs, but: a) in practice that hasn’t happened yet despite years of development, b) it’s never going to be as efficient as a centralised system because of the extra overheads necessary to decentralise it, so that point still stands

      All my other points still stand as well, plus the additional problems PoS creates to do with centralisation of power

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        4 months ago

        The keyword is “private.” The redundant system all the banks maintain can be reduced to a private, permissioned blockchain, creating a network for the banking system to handle their own transactions in addition to a seamless inter-bank communication.

        I doubt a network for just one bank can be that useful compared to the current situation.

        Also, I’d say that every bank has (had?) a team researching the blockchain.