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Why can't I find details about your node partner vetting process and what the requirements are to be considered a partner to run a node?
by qqii 6y ago
Why can't I find details about your node partner vetting process and what the requirements are to be considered a partner to run a node?
- josh2600 6y agoWe don't vet node operators. Node operators each individually choose who to peer with in a liquid democracy. Anyone can peer with anyone else; consensus is an emergent property of the graph.
- qqii 6y agoOkay, so do the current node operators publish their peering requirements? Given your description it sounds like governance is whatever the MobileCoin foundation and its partners dictates. Unlike the consensus in this thread I think there's a lot to like and explore for a privacy token that chooses a different set of tradeoffs but the opaque governance, token holder distribution/circulating supply and lack of acknowledgement to the Monero project really sets it back.
- josh2600 6y agoThe MobileCoin Foundation only publishes software, the nodes decide whether they want to run that software or not. Ultimately all of the nodes can run whatever code they want and call it MobileCoin if they can agree upon it. The governance is actually quite simple: a set of decentralized nodes individually choose what software to run and who to peer with. Consensus is an emergent property of that trust graph.
- BlueMatt 6y agoWhat do you do differently from Stellar or Ripple at the consensus layer which both started out with similar ideas, but quickly found that their validators fall apart due to the strongly-connected validator set requirement not being met? In other words, how do you avoid the exact same fate that both Stellar and Ripple ran into in their consensus models when they also tried to let "node individually choose"?
- and_wrt 6y agoConsider asking this on their community forum to get more eyes on it: https://community.mobilecoin.foundation https://community.mobilecoin.foundation
- thinkmassive 6y agoSounds like “proof of authority” which is often used for testnets, where reliability is far more important than decentralization.