b/ You’re naively assuming there’s always a “bad” actor to be blamed. Chain splits could occur due to network partition/outage (see my Part 1). Who’s to say who’s good / bad when there’s an unintentional partition? Or multiple partitions (say, US, Europe & China all got split)?
No, I only agreed that choosing safety over liveness is probably the correct choice *in PoS or traditional BFT systems*. Not in Bitcoin. Because of PoW, Bitcoin can afford to have both.
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Take off those glasses, you’re talking nonsense now. Good night.
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I'm speaking objectively, no colored glasses here

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Bottom line is this: PoS provides no real breakthrough over traditional BFT systems & are constrained by the same CAP theorem. PoS is just re-inventing the wheel all over again, using a different language. Bitcoin is able to "cheat" CAP via PoW - that's the real breakthrough.
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By "cheating" I mean Bitcoin doesn't _really_ give you the C in CAP - consistency. But it's close.
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