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It's a presentation deck not a paper.

I'm not sure how that changes the fact that everything he says is either completely untrue or irrelevant. If you want to point out an inaccuracy in what I've said, feel free.

> I'm not sure how that changes the fact that everything he says is either completely untrue or irrelevant.

I don't see how you have enough information to make that determination. It's a presentation deck. Those are just bullet points, not the arguments you would (presumably) hear in the full presentation.

Did you read through it? I don't think any amount of explanation is going to take arguments that have been thoroughly debunked for year and suddenly make them a reality. If you want to be specific about anything he or I said, feel free.

> arguments that have been thoroughly debunked

Could you give one example of an argument made in the deck which has been "thoroughly debunked"?

High fees are only a problem of PoW blockchains, not of PoS blockchains which are becoming the majority right now.

PoS has other disadvantages which PoW doesn't have.

Such as?

The fee death spiral is a wild prediction seeing that throughput can easily be expanded when not blocked politically since there aren't any technical limitations (bitcoin cash) AND that even when throughput is constrained to a suffocating degree (btc), the chain still worked and never broke down or went through a 'death spiral' it just had outrageous fees.

Most of the things he says are actually false arguments that no one is trying to make or just completely irrelevant.

Excuse me, this is just an assertion. By your own standards you should really back up all of these claims with extensive evidence.

What do you want explained more thoroughly than I did in my parent comment?

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