Technical Working Group: Node Providers

[Lorimer]

If this suggestion is found to not be workable in practice, as you indicate, then in my mind the only sensible solution is proper proof of stake. This goes back to our earlier discussion.

Subnet Management - General Discussion

Proof-of-stake, and decentralised systems in general, aren’t about guaranteeing the behaviour of individual entities. I agree that the barriers to entry shouldn’t be too high for NPs (or it would hurt scalability). But scalability shouldn’t be prioritised over robustness. I think you could have both by having two tiers of NPs. As longs as more than 1/3 of the nodes in a subnet are backed by a large proof-of-stake, then you have a significantly more robust subnet than one where the nodes are no…