[Cryptography] Bitcoin, litecoin, vertcoin, and derivatives

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2014-07-04 22:08 GMT+02:00 Ben Laurie <ben at links.org>:

> On 1 July 2014 12:11, Natanael <natanael.l at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Most proof-of-stake coins that aren't dead already have checkpoints in
> the
> > blockchain managed by the developer (making it centralized).
>
> And this is different from Bitcoin how?


And this is a problem how? Dev can do what dev can do, but user doesn't
need to follow. That's why it's done. But it's also why it's good to have
multiple independent clients.
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