i was reading through dusk's engineering updates on penalization and noticed the percentages actually compound — first suspension costs 10% of stake, second costs 20%, then 30%, climbing each time. that's not flat, it escalates.
which means a provisioner running close to the 1000 dusk minimum has way less room to recover than a bigger one. two or three consecutive faults and a small staker could get pushed below minimum entirely, at which point the docs say the stake freezes and has to be fully unstaked and restaked to come back — not just waiting out a suspension, an actual reset.
a large provisioner eating the same 10-20-30% sequence barely notices it relative to their total stake. so the same penalty schedule meant to punish bad behavior equally ends up hitting small validators harder — i went back and reread the percentages twice actually, because i kept assuming i'd misread "increasing by 10%" as some flat repeated 10% instead.
is there any minimum stake buffer recommended anywhere so smaller provisioners don't get pushed into that reset cycle by accident? 🧐
#dusk $DUSK @Dusk
which means a provisioner running close to the 1000 dusk minimum has way less room to recover than a bigger one. two or three consecutive faults and a small staker could get pushed below minimum entirely, at which point the docs say the stake freezes and has to be fully unstaked and restaked to come back — not just waiting out a suspension, an actual reset.
a large provisioner eating the same 10-20-30% sequence barely notices it relative to their total stake. so the same penalty schedule meant to punish bad behavior equally ends up hitting small validators harder — i went back and reread the percentages twice actually, because i kept assuming i'd misread "increasing by 10%" as some flat repeated 10% instead.
is there any minimum stake buffer recommended anywhere so smaller provisioners don't get pushed into that reset cycle by accident? 🧐
#dusk $DUSK @Dusk
