Do you mine proof of stake?

How does Ethereum’s proof-of-stake work? Unlike proof-of-work, validators don’t need to use significant amounts of computational power because they’re selected at random and aren’t competing. They don’t need to mine blocks ; they just need to create blocks when chosen and validate proposed blocks when they’re not.

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Which crypto uses proof-of-stake?

There are two major consensus mechanisms used by most cryptocurrencies today. Proof of work is the older of the two, used by Bitcoin, Ethereum 1.0, and many others. The newer consensus mechanism is called proof of stake, and it powers Ethereum 2.0, Cardano, Tezos and other (generally newer) cryptocurrencies .

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