@Dusk_Foundation I was watching one of the generator nodes on Dusk last night when its candidate just sat there for three full steps. Score looked clean on my side, proof verified, yet the reduction committee kept cycling. Nobody could tell who held the winning bid or how large it actually was.
That’s the older Proof-of-Blind Bid design doing what it was built for. Generators lock value into commitments and secrets inside the tree, run their private lottery, then push only the score and the zero-knowledge proof. Provisioners still have to reach agreement, but they never learn the identity or the stake size that produced the number.
It shifts the coordination problem. You can’t just watch a public rich list and line up against the next proposer. Instead you get short windows of pure uncertainty while the highest valid proof surfaces. In the last two hours of load I counted four extra step retries and two empty generations moments when every submitted score sat below the minimum needed for any generator to be selected at all. Privacy buys the opacity. It also buys that friction.
Still not sure how the system will behave once more real capital sits behind those blind bids. Checking the score spread across the next epoch to see whether the hidden weights start clustering under pressure. #dusk $DUSK $RE $GIGGLE @Dusk
That’s the older Proof-of-Blind Bid design doing what it was built for. Generators lock value into commitments and secrets inside the tree, run their private lottery, then push only the score and the zero-knowledge proof. Provisioners still have to reach agreement, but they never learn the identity or the stake size that produced the number.
It shifts the coordination problem. You can’t just watch a public rich list and line up against the next proposer. Instead you get short windows of pure uncertainty while the highest valid proof surfaces. In the last two hours of load I counted four extra step retries and two empty generations moments when every submitted score sat below the minimum needed for any generator to be selected at all. Privacy buys the opacity. It also buys that friction.
Still not sure how the system will behave once more real capital sits behind those blind bids. Checking the score spread across the next epoch to see whether the hidden weights start clustering under pressure. #dusk $DUSK $RE $GIGGLE @Dusk