The one that uses (among others) a thinly veiled form of power grab 'by iterating through all active accounts and seeing which one has the highest "hit"." determined by the "amount of NXT you can earn is dependent upon the number of NXT you hold in your effective balance, the total number of NXT "active" on the network."

It's right on your wiki. NXT is not a lottery. There is no randomness. It executes the wishes according to activity which is itself determined by the aggregated amount.

How do I select someone to be a stakeholder in a PoS currency (not DPoS)? Give him some coins as a present?
Stakeholders are the people. The majority of all stakeholders (weighted by stake) decides over the PoS economy.

I don't get why this "can" be a government. What makes you think countries are interested in a non inflationary currency?

I was quoting the nxtcrypto.org wiki. Since forging is how NXT secures transactions, who cares what the forging fee is if you can double spend? That is the type of political power any central banker wishes.

ANyway. I'm done here. I love PoS because it's so easy everyone should have their own PoS altcoin. I hate PoW because it's hard. That's why they call it work.

Well said.  PoW is dead unless you are bitcoin.

The problem with PoS coins is that nobody mints/forges, or at least not enough. Everyone keeps their coins on an exchange, waiting for the next pump to dump on, in which case the coin staking weight is low and an attacker needs far less than 51% of coins to attack the network. Either that or the exchange keeps the coins in a hot wallet because they are greedily staking themselves, trying to get free money since everyone keeps their coins at an exchange and you end with a situation like vericoin/mintpal. Even when 5% total NXT were stolen from bter, there was talk that the thief could attack the network, probably because less than 10% of total coins were forging, which goes back to the problem of everyone keeping their coins on an exchange so they don't miss the next pump.

All of this is moot for PoW coins since stealing coins or not keeping your wallet open doesn't really affect the security of the network.

Each mining technique has its own unique risks in that a POW attacker could buy mining power instead of buying or stealing staking power.  The attacks you spoke of were not a problem with lack of staking but a problem with having a single exchange housing the majority of the trading volume/liquidity in the coin.  As a coin grows larger these types of risks will mitigate themselves so if you can't kill the coin via criminal acts in the early stages, it survives and still keeps its low energy mining advantage over POW mining. 

My first thought when reading this was that it's wasted time to answer such a post.
I still think it's a waste of time.
But sometimes I like to waste some time

That's true for everything except for the things you really need to live (water, food, air).

With PoS everyone who is participating in minting gets a share.
The percentage for each participant is the same. So in the end there might be more coins in cirulation, but if the total supply goes up by x%, each participant has increased the owned coins by x%

Seriously - this is true for each scenario; with or without crypto, with PoW or with PoS. Welcome to the real world.
This is no problem associated with PoS but with the already unequal distribution of wealth.

In fact PoW doesn't remain decentralized. Mining farms are built where energy costs are low and the infrastructure is sufficient (geographical centralization) and operated/rented by people with sufficient money (financial centralization - woops: the rich get richer...). Should I tell you that pooled mining is another form of centralization?
PoS can remain decentralized, because it doesn't require mining farms, specialized hardware, etc.

That might be a serious problem for muslim people, but not for others.

Which costs a lot of money! Money you are going to lose if you successfully attack the coin of which you now own 51%...

And then you might be successful with your attack, mint successfully and have the coins you used for minting locked until they can be transferred (welcome to the world of successful minting...). How much do you think they will be worth once you can transfer them? Oh, you can perform that kind of attack. But make a gain with it? I doubt it...
But hey, what about renting some datacentres full of SHA-256 miners? Rent them for one day, attack Bitcoin and if you "earn" more than you pay for the hash rate, you have been successful^^

Bitcoin is permanently close to a > 50% attack. Just imagine what happens if one or two of the major pools are attacked and the remaining pools are above 50%?
What if pool operators secretly decide upon using the combined hash rate (that much about incognito attacks...)?

PoS is backed by itself. You need PoS coins to mint. You don't need to waste energy.

Your thread is for the waste container.

Everyone knows POW is going to die!

R.I.P