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by spinny 1499 days ago
> the top five assets (based on market cap) are all PoW

That's because "pure" PoS is a pipe dream. For PoS to work the network needs to start with PoW or a pre-sale (ETH did both). Staking 0 value tokens doesn't work. PoW is the most efficient method to convert raw energy to a digital and secure token. The value off all BTC in existence === all energy spent since the genesis block