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by eru 1495 days ago
As explained in another comment:

> Consensus in both of them is based on unforgeable costliness, to make it economically unviable to create alternative histories.

> In both systems, total cost of mining approaches the block reward. For example, if block rewards are $10 million a day, then $10 million worth of energy is used in PoW. PoST burns through $10 million worth of hard drives.