# "My trouble w pure PoS: there're no incentives to add more power to the network"

**URL:** <https://discourse.peercoin-library.org/t/my-trouble-w-pure-pos-therere-no-incentives-to-add-more-power-to-the-network/3193>\
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**Created:** [December 26, 2014, 12:18pm UTC](https://discourse.peercoin-library.org/t/my-trouble-w-pure-pos-therere-no-incentives-to-add-more-power-to-the-network/3193 "2014-12-26T12:18:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![crypto\_coiner](https://discourse.peercoin-library.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@crypto\_coiner](https://discourse.peercoin-library.org/u/crypto_coiner)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2014, 12:18pm UTC](https://discourse.peercoin-library.org/t/my-trouble-w-pure-pos-therere-no-incentives-to-add-more-power-to-the-network/3193/1 "2014-12-26T12:18:41Z")

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> **[r/ethereum - Developers: Please avoid Proof-of-Stake](https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/2dvjaz/developers_please_avoid_proofofstake/cjthnmq)**
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> 1 vote and 25 comments so far on Reddit

What are your thoughts?

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**Author:** ![pillow](https://discourse.peercoin-library.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a8b319/32.png) [@pillow](https://discourse.peercoin-library.org/u/pillow)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2014, 1:42pm UTC](https://discourse.peercoin-library.org/t/my-trouble-w-pure-pos-therere-no-incentives-to-add-more-power-to-the-network/3193/2 "2014-12-26T13:42:12Z")

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I’d have to say that I agree with the idea of PoW not being a good way to distribute coins. Premining and distributing them arbitrarily is even worse. PoW is the best way I heard about so far.

Then again, I also think that there is a purpose in coins not being evenly distributed. If some people feel that they want a bigger share of the supply and if that is an incentive for them to maintain the code base and so forth and so on, then that’s a good thing.

Then again, I like the idea of many different competing currencies. I mean, if bitcoins are to expensive then you could always buy peercoins. If peercoins are too expensive, you can always fork it and start a new one. If enough people feel the same way, a new economy could be built around the fork. Nothing wrong with that.

Since new forks are cheap to make, I have no issue with unevenly distributed coin supply. That said, I’m personally not accumulating coins that has been premined, because I’m afraid that suddenly there will be a big supply hitting the market, killing the price. But that’s just me.