Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
A regular reminder that this is still the level of discourse in many parts of crypto discussion. Literally pattern matching "ASIC" -> "so they're doing proof of work!" without even understanding that application-specific integrated circuits can be designed for multiple, err... applications.
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Marcus Sjölin 👽🎩
@marcus-sjolin
Interesting, which would you prefer for an asset like Bitcoin though?
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
I think the bitcoin devs should probably keep PoW and the 21m limit for now, but maintain a fork that switches to some kind of hybrid PoS that keeps enough PoW so that PoW fans still feel like it's Backed By Thermodynamics™ but where PoS provides most of the security, so they can switch to it once there's a problem
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