Is there a highly detailed, up-to-date, and well-written explanation of proof-of-stake (ideally with discussion of implications and trade-offs, notes on Ethereum's specific implementation details, etc)? (Googling for crypto-related topics yields "yikes"-level signal-to-noise!)
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e.g. I think I'd like something like this 2014 blog post on the topic[1], except with much greater detail (and ideally, with the many important open questions listed there tied up!)
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Best I've found so far is arxiv.org/abs/2003.03052, which I'm surprised that none of the replies mentioned.
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not exactly an explanation of proof of stake but a good explanation of the trade offs of scaling from vitalik buterin:
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Yes, I enjoyed that one!
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the most detailed and comprehensive is What’s New ETH2 newsletter by .
The fountain head of what gets finalized in terms of progress are recap notes.
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Thanks! Unfortunately the discussion on PoS there is quite high-level. I'm surprised that there isn't a white paper or something about this! Striking that the network seems to have consensus on moving to PoS seemingly without a strong publication describing the plan.
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Best article I have seen is vitalik.ca/general/2020/1
Which you’ve probably read. If you find something please share
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Not recent but this is the framing that’s cemented in my head
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These aren't great criticisms of PoS. Better ones:
1. Not machine validateable from genesis
2. Tolerance to long restarts/offline periods inferior to PoW
3. Bootstrapping ~impossible w/out PoW (no easy coinholders distribution bootstrap, CPU distribution already bootstrapped) twitter.com/jimmysong/stat
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