In general, Peercoin’s aim is simple: it is striving to create a sustainable, scalable public blockchain, that would support a myriad of features and transactions done by users around the world. The main problem that Peercoin recognizes in the structure of their main competitor Bitcoin is the fact that it is almost unscalable due to the higher and higher demands of energy and power in order to keep mining, the transaction speed is slow, and the platform itself has outlived its better days, according to the Peercoin team. So what Peercoin offers is a fully functional blockchain that would be able to support the same type of functionality currently attributed to Bitcoin, but without the need for the antiquated, environmentally irresponsible Proof-of-Work consensus mechanism, where the cost effectiveness is almost zero, considering the sheer volume of monetary input needed to create a farm large enough to mine a single coin. Solving this huge issue, Peercoin plans to replace Bitcoin.