Alex Sherbuck
Sep 2, 2018 · 1 min read

From reading this, it looks like the requirements to become a member of the US Congress are more stringent than to become a PoA validator.

My question: If PoA derives it’s network value through a reputation-based consensus and puts forward a vetting and public notary service as a means of security how is it more secure than, say, the US Congress, or similar position with stricter, more expensive, vetting process and an almost certainly higher cost of loss than a PoA network validator position.

On a ven diagram of requirements, a government body is most certainly more encompassing than PoA and they prove that trust-based or reputation-based systems become more fragile and corrupt as they grow in size.

Nakamoto Consensus was invented to remove the need for trust. This puts trust on the blockchain. This technology was obsolete before it was conceived.