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There is no actor in charge of surveilling the network. Every validator is. And every validator is incentivized to do so because you get a reward coming from th
by pa7x1 4y ago
There is no actor in charge of surveilling the network. Every validator is. And every validator is incentivized to do so because you get a reward coming from the slash penalty. So everyone is checking on everyone else.
- rakoo 4y agoValidators only add transactions to the ledger. What I was talking about is the slasher, which makes sure nodes are behaving correctly.
- pa7x1 4y agoWhen a validator adds a block to the ledger it can include evidence of slashable offenses. Including evidence of a slashable offense gets rewarded so every validator is incentivized to include them. Further reading: https://eth2book.info/altair/part2/incentives/slashing#the-value-of-reporting-a-slashing https://eth2book.info/altair/part2/incentives/slashing#the-v... There is no separate notion of a slasher, everyone gets to provide slashing evidence when they build a block. I don't understand why you build such a weak straw-man and the push it forward as if it was the truth without even checking how the system operates.
- rakoo 4y agoThe initial post talks about slashers as some special entities so I was talking about them