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		bogomipz on May 23, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Keep the web free, say no to Web3 (2021) I apologize if this a naive question but Proof of work is also decentralized no? Why does Proof of Stake incur these scaling limitations but Proof of work does not?

coffeeblack on May 25, 2022 [–]

Both do.

bogomipz on May 25, 2022 | [–]

Can you elaborate? The person I was replying to indicated that the problem was one of storage however the only scalability problems I have seen written about have been around transaction processing.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_scalability_problem

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