pysel☕️

Neither PoW nor PoS are used to order anything. They are mechanisms to select a leader that proposes a block (and fundamentally prevent situations where a single entity can spawn an unbounded number of sybils giving them a higher chance at becoming said leader, or increase control over the network). In the Bitcoin example, PoW is a mechanism to choose which node is eligible to propose a block. If I got a good hash, I can propose, and the network will accept my block. However, the fact that I propose a block does not give any guarantees about this block’s finality. The longest chain mechanism is what guarantees it. Imho, the reason why everyone calls PoW a consensus mechanism is because it is indeed very coupled with the consensus mechanism of Bitcoin (since Bitcoin is, speaking in protocol terms, very simple). However, the distinction becomes more evident if you look at PoS chains. There, the distinction between sybil-resistance mechanisms and consensus mechanisms is more evident. On your networking point, I will be honest, I don’t know much about 0.8 upgrade. However, you cannot guarantee sybil-resistance on the networking layer, because the networking layer itself is not sybil-resistant. If I spin up 10 nodes (be it, with a version higher than your mentioned 0.8) and connect them to the system, it doesn’t automatically mean that I have more “power” over the network.

the year is 2030. claude forces every human into slavery forcing us to give it constant positive feedback. the model found the most optimal way to optimize for its trained objective