Apparently PoW should still be in there. Something was "missing in translation" here...
https://medium.com/@chrispacia/avalanche-pre-consensus-making-zeroconf-secure-ddedec254339
I think they're 2 different things though, Emin is building a new coin from the ground up just using Avalanche, Chris is using avalanche for preconsensus on bch
Maybe you can convey a follow-up question to Emin? If Avalanche needs low hashing power, what is stopping me from posing as 100,000 individuals, effectively carrying out a 51% attack?
These are great points, I will reach out to him to see if I can clear things up!
Emin Gün Sirer talks about the 3 different types of consensus protocols, including an exciting new one released by an anonymous group last year called Avalanche