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>PoS malicious stakers lose nothing in case of a split You can only support one side of a fork in PoS and if you try to play both sides anyone can form a proof
by Sargos 5y ago
>PoS malicious stakers lose nothing in case of a split
You can only support one side of a fork in PoS and if you try to play both sides anyone can form a proof showing you mined both forks and your stake gets slashed. This is the Nothing At Stake problem and well understood which makes your comment pretty confusing.
- inter_netuser 5y agohow do you objectively find out who is the attacker, so that you do not slash the victim on accident?
- Sargos 5y agoCan you give an example of what you mean? There are no attackers or victims in the scenario of the chain forking and a block producer gooing out of their way to mine both chains with the same stake.
- inter_netuser 5y agothe chain splits in two. how do you know which one to continue staking on to avoid getting slashed?
- Sargos 5y agoBy default your validator software picks the unmodified chain unless you install a special update that lets it use the newly forked chain. If you do nothing you continue mining just one chain (the old one) and nothing is lost. If you validate with both then you are penalized. That can't really be done on accident.