TL;DR: A period comparison of the two consensus families that came to define most cryptocurrency arguments about security, mining, and energy.
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Mohammad A. AlAhmad, Abdullah Al-Saleh, and Fahad A. AlMasoud contrast proof of work with proof of stake in digital-currency systems. The paper considers decentralization, mining, stability, and the practical reasons a cryptocurrency might select one model over the other.
Why Bitcoin People May Care
Written in 2018, the paper contains period-specific terminology and historical simplifications. It remains useful as a concise record of how PoW and PoS were being compared while Ethereum's transition was still a proposal and Bitcoin's mining model supplied the obvious baseline.
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• Title: Comparison Between Proof of Work and Proof of Stake Cryptocurrency Systems
• Author / organization: Mohammad A. AlAhmad, Abdullah Al-Saleh, Fahad A. AlMasoud
• Year: 2018
• Document type: Comparative research paper
• Pages: 6
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About This Document
Mohammad A. AlAhmad, Abdullah Al-Saleh, and Fahad A. AlMasoud contrast proof of work with proof of stake in digital-currency systems. The paper considers decentralization, mining, stability, and the practical reasons a cryptocurrency might select one model over the other.
Why Bitcoin People May Care
Written in 2018, the paper contains period-specific terminology and historical simplifications. It remains useful as a concise record of how PoW and PoS were being compared while Ethereum's transition was still a proposal and Bitcoin's mining model supplied the obvious baseline.
Document Details
• Title: Comparison Between Proof of Work and Proof of Stake Cryptocurrency Systems
• Author / organization: Mohammad A. AlAhmad, Abdullah Al-Saleh, Fahad A. AlMasoud
• Year: 2018
• Document type: Comparative research paper
• Pages: 6
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