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Story: Jack Dorsey Twitter Gets Tutored by Charles Hoskinson Cardano (ADA) on PoW Vs. PoS

By Steven Anderson

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Charles Hoskinson Stated:  This video is made for Jack Dorsey.  Yesterday, Jack Dorsey said Proof of Work (PoW) is better than Proof of Stake (PoS).

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Normally, most people laymen don’t have strong opinions on consensus protocols in computer science.

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Since everybody wants to be an expert and everybody wants to talk about these things – unfortunate conversation, which is really difficult to converge in to anything meaningful.

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If you are actually curious of doing the hard work of developing a good opinion about hard work. There are some great resources for that.

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Charles points to a paper titled:  Times, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System.

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The abstract goes like:  The concept of one event happening before another in a distributed system is examined, and is shown to define a partial ordering of the events.

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It has about 12,000 citations.  It is one of the most cited papers in the history of computer science.  This really outlines kind of a difficult problem.

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When you are just a single person and observing something and you see an event A and event B and this is occurring in a local setting.

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Charles makes it very clear that if you are curious about building right opinions you have to know the facts covered in the paper in terms of a single computer first, before…

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The full video runs for 46:27 minutes – worth watching for those who are curious.

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