Unstoppable Code?
Unlike Proof of Work based blockchains which require seizable factory infrastructure to break even, Proof of Stake doesn&#x27;t need one.<p>Most Proof of Stake supporters see this as a good thing because it means there&#x27;s no electricity waste and higher degree of &quot;censorship resistance&quot;.<p>However what will actually happen is this &quot;censorship resistance&quot; is what will make the PoS blockchain as a whole get &quot;censored&quot;, ironically.<p>Proof of Work blockchains, while wasting a lot of energy, can be regulated easily because the government can simply regulate the large miners in their countries. However Proof of Stake, because it can&#x27;t be traced easily, the regulators will have to try to stop the entire blockchain as a whole.<p>Of course, it&#x27;s impossible to completely stop it, but the governments can do a lot of things in their &quot;anti-decentralized tech playbook&quot; to make sure the adoption never goes mainstream. (See Tor, BitTorrent, etc.)