> The difference in Proof of Stake is a lawsuit could force the distributor of the software to change the hash to one where coins weren’t stolen.
In Proof of Work, a lawsuit could force the distributor of the software to hard-code a transaction that reverses the coin theft. But in both the PoS case and the PoW case, anyone using that client would be partitioned off from the honest network majority.
> You mention “POW forks”, but Bitcoin’s POW has never been hard forked: you’d need to trust a Bitcoin expert to tell you if it was a good idea.
Bitcoin's PoW forked in 2013, when a database upgrade to the software made it incompatible between two recent versions. The Bitcoin developers had to jump in and tell people which PoW fork to follow and which one to abandon.
In Proof of Work, a lawsuit could force the distributor of the software to hard-code a transaction that reverses the coin theft. But in both the PoS case and the PoW case, anyone using that client would be partitioned off from the honest network majority.
> You mention “POW forks”, but Bitcoin’s POW has never been hard forked: you’d need to trust a Bitcoin expert to tell you if it was a good idea.
Bitcoin's PoW forked in 2013, when a database upgrade to the software made it incompatible between two recent versions. The Bitcoin developers had to jump in and tell people which PoW fork to follow and which one to abandon.