Bitcoin’s Tough Future Without Proof of Stake

Ryan Herman
5 min readMay 14, 2021

With Ethereum 2.0 already adopting PoS, it is time for Bitcoin to consider it as well if it wants to stay popular.

If Bitcoin wants to continue to have future relevance it will need to address some of its major scalability problems. The consensus mechanism, Proof of Stake (PoS), may be one (of many) necessary updates on the Bitcoin blockchain that will help ensure full utilization of…

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