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  • Decentralization isn’t the reason, and conflating it with fediverse services is disingenuous.

    The reason many cryptos use a lot of power is because of proof of work.

    Proof of stake and proof of work have the same effective result for voting power. In order to effectively mine, you need a large capital investment and in order to stay competitive in mining you need to continue spending capital, the same is true for proof of stake as the larger overall stake the lower the payouts, so it requires more capital investment.