[maxerickson]

Proof of work will always be an expensive way to secure a ledger, with little in the way of real advantages.

"Distributed" sounds nice, but it isn't really that valuable in the end.

[noxer]

PoW doesn't even lead to good distribution as we can see since a few years and more importantly its not needed. We have Federated Byzantine Agreement (FBA) "blockchians" since like 8 years and it beats PoW by any metric.