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by rafale 1939 days ago
I can see Bitcoin hardfork to POS once the tech has been proven in Ethereum. Bitcoiners only care about the 21 millions hard cap and a secure network, not the exact consensus algorithm used.
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Cardano will prove PoS sooner than Ethereum, and it has hard cap.

Yes I am a Cardano shiller.

Cardano has already demonstrated that it's working. The network is currently 86% decentralized and on Mar 31st will be 100% decentralized.
Yes, exciting times ahead.
How would you recommend acquiring Cardano? Is there an exchange you can buy it on?
You can just get it in majority of exchanges. In case your exchange doesn't support it (like me, Coinbase and Gemini, NYC, don't support Cardano), just use swapping service like changenow.io, so buy ETH from Coinbase and use changenow.io to swap it to ADA

I've been using changenow.io and it always works. As always, don't send in really large transaction, but one by one, maybe like 3000 ADA each time (this is what I do).

Thank you, this is great information.
You're welcome, pass it on. I got it also from someone else when I wondering how I could buy ADA.
PoS isn't as secure as PoW, though. I'd imagine the majority of BTC nodes would reject updating to a fork that removed PoW.
I agree. The miners have no incentive to switch to PoS and share the rewards with all participating holders.