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I figured slashing on dusk meant losing your stake if something went wrong. Turns out for most faults, nothing actually gets taken from you at all.
When i first looked at this I literally thought soft slashing was just hard slashing on a delay, a slower way of losing money. what's underneath it has nothing to do with money at all.
Here's why. Most of the time a provisioner goes quiet, it's not because they're attacking the network, it's because their node crashed or missed an update. Burning stake for that punishes honest downtime to the same as an actual attack, and that scares people off running nodes. So dusk split it into two tracks.
Hard slashing burns tokens, and only fOr real malicious stuff like double voting. Everything else, like just failing to produce a block when picked, is soft slashing, and it doesn't touch your stake. first fault gets a warning. after that, 10% times however many faults in a row gets pulled out of your active stake and moved to rewards instead, still yours, just excluded from being picked for a set number of epochs.
So the real punishment isn't losing the money, it's losing your odds. you're still there, just invisible to selection for a while.
What i can't figure out is when the warning count resets. dusk's own update mentions it resets under certain conditions then just stops explaining what those are. if you have one bad week, i don't know if that follows you around for months or clears fast. matters a lot if you're actually running a node on this.
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I figured slashing on dusk meant losing your stake if something went wrong. Turns out for most faults, nothing actually gets taken from you at all.
When i first looked at this I literally thought soft slashing was just hard slashing on a delay, a slower way of losing money. what's underneath it has nothing to do with money at all.
Here's why. Most of the time a provisioner goes quiet, it's not because they're attacking the network, it's because their node crashed or missed an update. Burning stake for that punishes honest downtime to the same as an actual attack, and that scares people off running nodes. So dusk split it into two tracks.
Hard slashing burns tokens, and only fOr real malicious stuff like double voting. Everything else, like just failing to produce a block when picked, is soft slashing, and it doesn't touch your stake. first fault gets a warning. after that, 10% times however many faults in a row gets pulled out of your active stake and moved to rewards instead, still yours, just excluded from being picked for a set number of epochs.
So the real punishment isn't losing the money, it's losing your odds. you're still there, just invisible to selection for a while.
What i can't figure out is when the warning count resets. dusk's own update mentions it resets under certain conditions then just stops explaining what those are. if you have one bad week, i don't know if that follows you around for months or clears fast. matters a lot if you're actually running a node on this.
#dusk $DUSK #Dusk.
$ACE #BTC