Proof-of-Useful-Work proposes that the same GPU computation used for AI workloads can also secure a blockchain network.
But that immediately triggers an economic objection - if miners are already getting paid for running AI jobs, does the security of the network collapse?
@PassRafael breaks it down and shows why this critique doesn’t hold up. Worth watching 👇
Since Bitcoin, a major open problem in distributed systems was whether proof-of-work consensus can be implemented on top of real-world computation rather than useless random hashing. This challenge of PoUW was repeatedly conjectured impossible by researchers and thought leaders. They were wrong.
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