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ETH PoS includes offline penalties proportional to the % of the network that goes down. If your home RasPi validator drops you don't lose much. If 25% of users
by zionic 4y ago
ETH PoS includes offline penalties proportional to the % of the network that goes down.
If your home RasPi validator drops you don't lose much. If 25% of users stake on coinbase and _they_ go down the penalties are much higher.
So there's an incentive to validate on your own hardware/connection.
- mattnewton 4y agoIf that were true why wouldn’t coinbase just stake through a few hundred different vms on servers instead of one block of nodes? Or is there some mechanism that ties it to a legal person / corporation?