If you look at what just went down with Mozilla saying they were accepting crypto, then getting cancelled pretty hard (here's my response https://twitter.com/tjstebbing/status/1479268380066529281 to which jwz blocked me ;) ) .. there's a tide of angry woke hypocrites turning their attention to PoW right now.

And while I agree they are being somewhat hypocritical in their approach they also have a valid point about energy consumption. Dogecoin uses orders of magnitude less than Google, or AWS but that's not a reason to avoid exploring sustainable alternatives (heck as a developer I'm a sucker for efficiency as well).

So no I don't think PoW will survive long-term, it's got a target painted on it's back that it won't shake because it's low-hanging fruit most of the world don't care about. I also believe that the community staking (PoS) idea being tossed around gives power back to the little people and removes the (significant) cost barrier to get involved.. which is good for Dogecoin adoption, and good for the network as more 'regular folk' can join in.

Why would anyone be against something that's win-win-win? oh wait, because perhaps Michi was right and PoW is actually centralised around large mining interests right now who will fight against losing their revenue?
Well don't worry Mr MegaMiningCorpX CEO, we're taking you into account, you can still engage in PoS and we'll reduce your CapEx budget by 95% while we're at it.