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		deeeeplearning on Feb 23, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gridcoin: An open-source cryptocurrency that rewar... Not to be that guy but did anyone read the 2 sentence wiki? "Gridcoin attempts to address and ease the environmental energy impact of cryptocurrency mining through its proof-of-research and proof-of-stake protocols" Feels like a quarter of the comments are complaining about PoW ...

jl2718 on Feb 23, 2021 [–]

Because it doesn’t ‘address’ any of that. It’ vanilla PoS. Still a good idea for other reasons.

deeeeplearning on Feb 24, 2021 | [–]

So what's the point of complaining about PoW as if Gridcoin used that when literally 1 of the 2 sentences in the wiki says it uses PoS?

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