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I'm looking for other types of distribution models for crypto coins that are like POW (proof of work) and POS (proof of stake). I'm assuming these are a type of distribution model for coins, or is there a better term for it? I mainly want to find other systems that have unique ways of distributing a coin. Is there a list somewhere?

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  • A nice collection of crypto-related white papers: http://encryptopedia.com/?s=proof+of&submit=Search –  Apr 24 '15 at 19:54

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I don't know of any such list yet, but no reason we can't start making one. :) Others should feel free to add their findings via an edit.

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    Non-Snake-Oil version of Proof of Stake : https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/pos.pdf (recently updated) – Jannes Mar 30 '15 at 16:40
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    @Jannes, that doc seems to be more of an anti-PoS doc than a proposal for a modified security scheme. – morsecoder Mar 30 '15 at 21:45
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    Warning people to think twice, before investing time or money in something overhyped yet unproven and even long discarded as impossible by people in the know, seems only fair. (They got sick of explaining this to people over and over again, that's why they wrote this paper.) – Jannes Mar 30 '15 at 22:58
  • We can add "Proof of Luck": https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=442626.0;wap2 and https://github.com/nejucomo/cryptocurrencydesign/wiki/Proof-of-Luck – sw. Jun 06 '16 at 14:49
  • More recent discussion for Proof of Luck: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1087219.0 – sw. Jun 06 '16 at 14:56
  • @sw. Taking a quick look at those links makes me think that this is more like buying a scratch ticket than a distribution scheme for a coin. – morsecoder Jun 06 '16 at 15:18
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Just to add, there's been an update to the POS protocol that many coins are adopting: http://blackcoin.co/blackcoin-pos-protocol-v2-whitepaper.pdf

v3 in the works

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Here is an interesting new whitepaper. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.01341.pdf

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    Welcome to Bitcoin.SE! Whilst this may theoretically answer the question, [it would be preferable](//meta.stackoverflow.com/q/8259) to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference. – Andrew Chow Jan 06 '18 at 04:26
  • Thank you Andrew and Pieter for your instructive feedback! – ROMVLVS Jan 07 '18 at 18:19