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I don't understand how that would fix proof of work. The whole point is that the voting power is proportional to how much computational power you are willing to burn away, in order to protect against Sybil attacks.



I was thinking that eventually we may discover a proof of work that would actually compute something useful instead of burning electricity away. One can hope at least.


Ethereum


I'm not savvy in the technology, but are the contracts actually executed as part of mining?




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