@Peter Todd I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this new method for calculating total work (or entropy reduction as the paper describes):

arXiv.org

POEM: Proof of Entropy Minima

Nakamoto consensus has been incredibly influential in enabling robust blockchain systems, and one of its components is the so-called heaviest chain...

By measuring total entropy reduction instead of total work, Bitcoin could reduce the probability of uncles to virtually 0, and further strengthen Bitcoin's finality.

157 block deep reorg on Polygon. Why is nobody talking about this blatant failure of PoS to maintain consensus?

Polygon (POL) Blockchain Explorer

Polygon PoS Chain Blocks #39599624 | PolygonScan

Polygon PoS Chain Block Height 39599624. The timestamp, block reward, difficulty, gas used and the number of transactions in the block are detailed...