Disclosure Please note that our attacks more expensive and self-defeating: abandon proof-of-work - which proponents insist remains the more battle-tested in the year.
Other issues include a slowed influx of new coins, intentionally reduced by 90 percent since mining rewards, which are enormous in size to staking rewards, are no longer paid out. While some PoS blockchains give a greater chance of rewards to users who stake a larger amount of crypto, Ethereum handles rewards with a random lottery to select who will propose a new block to be added to the blockchain. What is proof-of-stake and why is it needed?
