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> I don't understand how can any other group of people decide what should happen other than the miners.

How about Bitcoin owners instead? Your vote is proportional to how much you have.




That's a proof-of-stake! There are coins that use it. The only that comes to mind is peercoin (first to use PoS IIRC).


Ethereum (Vitalik) wants to switch to PoS.




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