Re:The Merge
by pa7x1 on Sunday August 21, 2022 @04:04AM
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There is no actor in charge of surveilling the network. Every validator is. And every validator is incentivized to do so because you get a reward coming from the slash penalty. So everyone is checking on everyone else.
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Validators only add transactions to the ledger. What I was talking about is the slasher, which makes sure nodes are behaving correctly.
When a validator adds a block to the ledger it can include evidence of slashable offenses. Including evidence of a slashable offense gets rewarded so every validator is incentivized to include them.
Further reading: https://eth2book.info/altair/part2/incentives/slashing#the-v...
There is no separate notion of a slasher, everyone gets to provide slashing evidence when they build a block. I don't understand why you build such a weak straw-man and the push it forward as if it was the truth without even checking how the system operates.