RE: Some weaknesses in either the DPOS algorithm or its explanation

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Some weaknesses in either the DPOS algorithm or its explanation

in cryptocurrency •  7 years ago 

Basically, I'm saying that all 'N' witnesses should try and see what they would think the block should look like, even though only one is authorized to generate the block.

A block is considered irreversible once 21 witnesses approved it. That means one producer and 20 verifier. Currently all witnesses run in a trustless mode, so they will verify all other produced blocks. When a witness starts the first time, it will verify the whole chain.

The idea that votes are weighted by activity is nice in terms of someone suddenly trying to instantiate a bunch of accounts all at once to influence a vote, but then it certainly seems dangerous that high-reputation accounts have more influence than normal folk.

DPOS means delegated proof of stake, so it is determined by stake, not by aktivity. You can argue that a minority with a lot of funds has the most power, but they also have most to loose by faulting. If I own one million of all invested steem, my witness votes will be pretty influential. But if I make a wrong move, that will hurt my one million a lot.

Most of your questions seem like issues in the whitepaper, not in the Blockchain 😊

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Good! I'd love to see a newer whitepaper with some of your answers in it. Or a blog post. or something.

I don't think I'm well informed enough to write a whitepaper or a blog post about the topic 😅 that would mean going into detail.

But I can answer most of your questions 😊 and maybe someone with all the right knowledge makes a post about it.