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How is consensus secured for the Stacks blockchain? Is it proof-of-work? How many nodes are there? What is the root of trust of Stacks? Does it have auto-updat

• jude- 6y ago
  > How is consensus secured for the Stacks blockchain? Is it proof-of-work? This is all described in SIP-001 (https://github.com/stacksgov/sips/blob/main/sips/sip-001/sip-001-burn-election.md https://github.com/stacksgov/sips/blob/main/sips/sip-001/sip...). > How many nodes are there? Here's a sample: http://seed-0.mainnet.stacks.co:20443/v2/neighbors http://seed-0.mainnet.stacks.co:20443/v2/neighbors > What is the root of trust of Stacks? Does it have auto-update? If I take over your domain, can I take all Stacks? Root of trust is the history of cryptographic sortitions in the Bitcoin chain (again, see SIP-001). The chain can soft-fork to upgrade -- a direct and desirable consequence of Clarity being a decidable programming language. If you want to attack the chain, you'll need to mine a longer Stacks chain (or attack Bitcoin). > How can I independently verify how many mainnet coins have been locked as Stacks? How do I run a testnet node? See docs.blockstack.org