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I don't see how Paxos or RAFT could be considered proof-of-stake? Nothing is staked in Paxos or RAFT, and there is no disincentive for bad actors.
by zeroxfe 9y ago
I don't see how Paxos or RAFT could be considered proof-of-stake? Nothing is staked in Paxos or RAFT, and there is no disincentive for bad actors.
- gtrubetskoy 9y agoI was referring to the concept of delegating decisions to a (somehow selected) single node, though in those particular cases there is no "stake".
- zeroxfe 9y agoOkay, got it. I wouldn't call that PoS, but I see what you mean. I think of the crux of PoS as the incentive system that keeps bad actors out -- if you act maliciously, you lose your stake.
- TTPrograms 9y agoIt seems disingenuous to refer to that as proof-of-stake.
- rubentlz 9y agoErrr, no. That's leader election, and is not a consensus algorithm by itself. It's part of the algorithm, which is nothing like PoS at all. That's like saying UDP and TCP are the same because they send packets.