The core idea behind this scheme is that newly minted blocks by miners are made unspendable for a certain period. More precisely the coins get locked for a set number of blocks during the mining operation. The scheme works by allowing miners to perform mining at the cost of freezing a certain number of coins for some time. This is a type of PoS.
Proof of Deposit (PoD)
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