Neucoin Releases Whitepaper on Proof of Stake, Looks to Improve on Current Designs
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Neucoin Releases Whitepaper on Proof of Stake, Looks to Improve on Current Designs

THELOGICALINDIAN - Neucoin afresh appear a white cardboard arguing that Proof of Stake PoS is above to Bitcoins aerial costs mining absorption andeverincreasing costs of bitcoin mining hardware

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NeucoinNeucoin’s white cardboard additionally highlights the scalability of PoS vs. PoW. The cardboard argues that PoW affairs charge to access 100 times in adjustment to advance the accepted allurement for bitcoin mining.

Neucoin put cogent accomplishment into this paper, autograph a ample 39 pages with a 5-page abridged version. In accession to arguing PoS’ ahead over POW, the cardboard explains how Neucoin’s different alloy of POS fixes all the frequently cited vulnerabilities of POS.

Neucoin advised the whitepaper as a “fact-based debate” acceptance anyone to “ accomplish comments, advance edits, and point out abeyant flaws in the paper.” Neucoin will additionally incentivize users with Neucoin Bounties, which serves to incentivize users to improve the whitepaper, and to get bodies talking about Neucoin all at the aforementioned time.

Neucoin afresh added two new abstruse cardinal admiral to its team, Peercoin amount developer Michael Witrant and Patrik Stymne, arch systems artist and co-founder of King, a aggregation best accepted for Candy Crush Saga.

While the cardboard mostly endorses POS, it does admit the authority of application accord algorithms that are based on trusted nodes like the algorithms acclimated in Ripple and Stellar. The white cardboard argues that while it has agnate advantages to POS, the accord algorithm “requires users to assurance third parties and above that, depends on accurate third parties to abutment the arrangement by operating nodes, which may or may not appear over time.”

For added information, appointment the full whitepaper online.

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