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by _Kristijan_ 2399 days ago
Nano consensus mechanism is called Open Representative Voting (ORV). It has similar sides to proof-of-stake, but differs in important places. e.g. it is less a "stake" than a voting weight that the users themselves distribute to nodes of their choice (or their own). ORV's self-description at:

https://docs.nano.org/glossary/#open-representative-voting-o...

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> or their own

Sure, it's an optionally-delegated-proof-of-stake. In practice, most do delegate their stake. But at the end of the day the "voting weight" that secures transactions is majority stake and not a proof of work.