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Interesting, hadn't heard of it before. What gets slashed in PoA? Is there some kind of quantified reputation that you lose through misbehavior?
by iskander 5y ago
Interesting, hadn't heard of it before. What gets slashed in PoA? Is there some kind of quantified reputation that you lose through misbehavior?
- verdverm 5y agoIt's a permissioned system, so there is a cartel like group who decides who can do what. It's very similar to what we have today. It's also not like anyone can add code to Bitcoin, so there are permissioned parts of the system.
- nostrademons 5y agoPoA is centralized, by definition. You are approved to be a validator by some trusted entity. In theory, this can be a group or consensus (you could imagine a PoA scheme where the set of authorized validators is passed around like a HOSTS file), but you still need to trust the mechanism that authorizes validators. You lose your right to be a validator through misbehavior; you are removed from the list of authorized validators, and hence can't do it anymore.