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The original was posted on /r/monero by /u/neromonero on 2025-08-29 12:17:49+00:00.

There are so many ragebait posts nowadays, trying to push Monero people into accepting PoS.

No. PoS is NOT going replace PoW. RandomX PoW will remain the primary mechanism for block generation.

As the title suggests, the only place PoS is being considered for is the “finality layer” proposal (finality layer on MRL and Luke’s CCS proposal on finality layer book (similar to Cuprate’s books)).

The idea is, finality layer fundamentally solves the issue of PoW which is unmitigated reorgs given an adversary controls a significant portion of the hash rate. In this system, there will be “validators” who will “stake” their coins (most likely, it will be them providing their public+private viewkeys). If any validator misbehaves, their outputs will be blacklisted (thus, not spendable).

There are also various ideas floating around on how to design it so that big whales don’t get control over the finality layer. My favorite solution is, “validators” will only be able to stake their coinbase outputs, giving solo/p2pool miners a big advantage.