Re:Mainnet Merge Announcement
by drog on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @11:43AM
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No.
Inactivity leak is an emergency measure to restore liveness when the network stops finalizing blocks. It happens when >33% of validators are offline(WW3 scenario), major bug in widespread implementation, etc.
Your link explains that.
ETH2 is friendly to home stackers - you may lose some profit by being offline sometimes, and in the worst case minor penalties are applied.
EDIT: If you are interested in a much better description of what happens if you are offline, see this:
Inactivity leak is an emergency measure to restore liveness when the network stops finalizing blocks. It happens when >33% of validators are offline(WW3 scenario), major bug in widespread implementation, etc.
Your link explains that.
ETH2 is friendly to home stackers - you may lose some profit by being offline sometimes, and in the worst case minor penalties are applied.
EDIT: If you are interested in a much better description of what happens if you are offline, see this:
https://eth2book.info/altair/part2/incentives/penalties
Some points from the link:
- penalties =/= slashing
- If you are online > 42.5% of the sime - you are earning profits