Cardano PoS vs. Bitcoin PoW

Cardanians.io (CRDNS pool)
16 min readOct 11, 2019

We would like to honestly compare Cardano Ouroboros PoS with the Bitcoin PoW consensus algorithm. It will be only a high-level comparison and I will create a summary table at the end. PoS and PoW are both good protocols. However, they are dramatically different in many details and it has a significant influence on usage.

PoS vs PoW

Why consensus is made

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