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by bouncycastle 2726 days ago
Nope, if an attacker does something bad (eg. a group forms a 51% cartel and starts censoring transactions), then they can be forked out and their stake slashed in the fork that doesn't censor the transactions. I really do not see a problem here? It's even better security than PoW, because once the attackers have their stake slashed, they can't attack anymore. With PoW, the miners can keep on doing a 51% attack even after the fork, indefinitely.

PoS is way more secure.

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...if you trust a minority to decide who is an attacker and who isn't.
It's pretty clear when you validate the transactions