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Can anybody elaborate on the destruction of coins? Sounds dangerous... "If the validator causes the blockchain to fork while its coins are locked in bond, all

by jsherer 12y ago

Can anybody elaborate on the destruction of coins? Sounds dangerous... "If the validator causes the blockchain to fork while its coins are locked in bond, all of its coins are destroyed. This means that as long as you sync your blockchain with the network periodically you never have to trust a central checkpoint."

wmf 12y ago
Only coins owned by attempted cheaters get destroyed.
- jcoffland 12y ago
  What about accidental cheaters?
  - wmf 12y ago
    I don't know how you'd accidentally sign two conflicting forks at the same block height, but it would suck to lose your whole stake due to such a bug.
    - vbuterin 12y ago
      I think something like that would happen about an order of magnitude less often than accidentally reusing k values or publishing your private key to the internet :)
      - jcoffland 12y ago
        Why, faulty software could make it easy.