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Dylan16807 on Nov 28, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consens...

Only the chosen validators for a particular block do the calculation, and they only need one core to do it on.

The global CPU and power use for the VDF calculations doesn't need to exceed what you could fit into a single server rack.

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