Code your own Proof of Stake blockchain in Go

Re:Code your own Proof of Stake blockchain in Go by zeroxfe on Sunday March 25, 2018 @08:00PM (#16675424)

I don't see how Paxos or RAFT could be considered proof-of-stake? Nothing is staked in Paxos or RAFT, and there is no disincentive for bad actors.

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Re:Code your own Proof of Stake blockchain in Go by gtrubetskoy on Sunday March 25, 2018 @08:05PM (#16675443)

I was referring to the concept of delegating decisions to a (somehow selected) single node, though in those particular cases there is no "stake".

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Re:Code your own Proof of Stake blockchain in Go by zeroxfe on Sunday March 25, 2018 @08:35PM (#16675594)

Okay, got it. I wouldn't call that PoS, but I see what you mean.

I think of the crux of PoS as the incentive system that keeps bad actors out -- if you act maliciously, you lose your stake.

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Re:Code your own Proof of Stake blockchain in Go by rubentlz on Monday March 26, 2018 @03:08AM (#16677182)

Errr, no. That's leader election, and is not a consensus algorithm by itself. It's part of the algorithm, which is nothing like PoS at all. That's like saying UDP and TCP are the same because they send packets.

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Re:Code your own Proof of Stake blockchain in Go by TTPrograms on Sunday March 25, 2018 @10:30PM (#16676163)

It seems disingenuous to refer to that as proof-of-stake.

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