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Re:Mainnet Merge Announcement by rauljordan2020 on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @02:37PM (#32583847)
I am one of the maintainers of the Go implementation of Ethereum proof-of-stake, called Prysm (github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm) and also implemented a "slasher" in Go that can be used to slash malicious validators. Anyone can run a slasher and you don't need to have 32 ETH to do so. As long as your slasher software can prove that a validator committed a slashable offense, you can submit this proof to any full node to proceed with slashing the malicious actor. It is permissionless, global, and we only need a few honest slashers in the world for the system to work correctly
Re:Mainnet Merge Announcement by rauljordan2020 on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @02:40PM (#32583889)
In fact, here are the instructions anyone can use to run a slasher at home https://docs.prylabs.network/docs/prysm-usage/slasher
Re:Mainnet Merge Announcement by plq on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @03:25PM (#32584494)
By "A few", how much do you mean? Or is that a dynamic number? How does it get defined? Who can change it later, if it's mutable?
Re:Mainnet Merge Announcement by londons_explore on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @04:47PM (#32585539)
Security is maintained with at least one slasher.

And there is no upper limit on the number of slashers.

Re:Mainnet Merge Announcement by conroydave on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @09:55PM (#32588471)
Thank you for all your work on Ethereum.
Re:Mainnet Merge Announcement by beaned on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @08:18PM (#32587688)
How many full nodes are there?
Re:Mainnet Merge Announcement by HenriTEL on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @03:40PM (#32584696)
You can run the slasher this way but won't get the associated reward.