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PoS will be much harder without a fork. I don't care about the DAO holders (disclaimer: I have around 5% of my total Ether holdings locked in the DAO), but due to the issues with PoS I think that a fork would be the best option at this point.

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Heads up that Vlad (the guy leading PoS) does not share this assessment.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4rohdy/vlad_zamfi...

I think the problem is less that an attacker can use an economic attack on PoS, and more that Vitalik won't be able to force through an PoS fork to begin with if the community rejects his (possibly misguided) recommendation for a DAO fork.

Well, they did include a difficulty bomb specifically for that reason.

This is mainly an issue because Vitalik endorsed DAO forks- If he had said "This does not justify a fork" I would be 100% anti fork, for the same reasons you describe: Vitalik needs credibility to pull the POS transition through.

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