Billy Tetrud [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2021-06-22 📝 Original message:> Barrier to entry in PoS ...
📅 Original date posted:2021-06-22
📝 Original message:> Barrier to entry in PoS is being given permission by the previous owner
of a token
The idea that proof of stake is not permissionless is completely invalid.
It pains me to see such an argument here. Perhaps we can come to an
agreement by being more specific. I'd like to propose the following:
Premise: There is a healthy exchange market for PoS Coin X with tens of
thousands of participants bidding to buy and sell the coin for other
currencies on the market.
If the premise above is true, then there is no significant permission
needed to enter the market for minting blocks for PoS Coin X. If you make a
bid on someone's coins and they don't like you and refuse, you can move on
to any one of the other tens of thousands of people in that marketplace.
Would you agree, Cloud Strife, that this situation couldn't be considered
"permissioned"?
If not, consider that participation in *any* decentralized system requires
the permission of at least one user in that system. If there are thousands
of bitcoin public nodes, you require the permission of at least one of them
to participate in bitcoin. No one considers bitcoin "permissioned" because
of this. Do you agree?
On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 1:15 PM Cloud Strife via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Barrier to entry in PoW is matter for hardware and energy is
> permissionless and exist all over the universe, permissionless cost which
> exists for everyone no matter who because it's unforgeable.
>
> Barrier to entry in PoS is being given permission by the previous owner of
> a token for you to have it via transfer or sale, both choices they never
> have to make since there are no continuous costs with producing blocks
> forcing it. A permission is an infinitely high barrier to entry if the
> previous owner, like the premining party, refuses to give up the token they
> control.
>
> You're skipping the part where you depend on a permission of a central
> party in control of the authority token before you can produce blocks on
> your rasberry Pi.
>
> Proof of stake is not in any possible way relevant to permissionless
> protocols, and thus not possibly relevant to decentralized protocols where
> control must be distributed to independent (i.e. permissionless) parties.
>
> There's nothing of relevance to discuss and this has been figured out long
> long ago.
>
> https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-system/wiki/Proof-of-Stake-Fallacy
>
>
> https://medium.com/@factchecker9000/nothing-is-worse-than-proof-of-stake-e70b12b988ca
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 7:13 AM James MacWhyte via bitcoin-dev <
> bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> @Lloyd wrote:
>>
>> Of course in reality no one wants to keep their coin holding keys online
>>> so in Alogorand you can authorize a set of "participation keys"[1] that
>>> will be used to create blocks on your coin holding key's behalf.
>>> Hopefully you've spotted the problem.
>>> You can send your participation keys to any malicious party with a nice
>>> website (see random example [2]) offering you a good return.
>>> Damn it's still Proof-of-SquareSpace!
>>>
>>
>> I believe we are talking about a comparison to PoW, correct? If you want
>> to mine PoW, you need to buy expensive hardware and configure it to work,
>> and wait a long time to get any return by solo mining. Or you can join a
>> mining pool, which might use your hashing power for nefarious purposes. Or
>> you might skip the hardware all together and fall for some "cloud mining"
>> scheme with a pretty website and a high rate of advertised return. So as
>> you can see, Proof-of-SquareSpace exists in PoW as well!
>>
>> The PoS equivalent of buying mining hardware is setting up your own
>> validator and not outsourcing that to anyone else. So both PoW and PoS have
>> the professional/expert way of participating, and the fraud-prone, amateur
>> way of participating. The only difference is, with PoS the
>> professional/expert way is accessible to anyone with a raspberry Pi and a
>> web connection, which is a much lower barrier to entry than PoW.
>> _______________________________________________
>> bitcoin-dev mailing list
>> bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org
>> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
>>
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📝 Original message:> Barrier to entry in PoS is being given permission by the previous owner
of a token
The idea that proof of stake is not permissionless is completely invalid.
It pains me to see such an argument here. Perhaps we can come to an
agreement by being more specific. I'd like to propose the following:
Premise: There is a healthy exchange market for PoS Coin X with tens of
thousands of participants bidding to buy and sell the coin for other
currencies on the market.
If the premise above is true, then there is no significant permission
needed to enter the market for minting blocks for PoS Coin X. If you make a
bid on someone's coins and they don't like you and refuse, you can move on
to any one of the other tens of thousands of people in that marketplace.
Would you agree, Cloud Strife, that this situation couldn't be considered
"permissioned"?
If not, consider that participation in *any* decentralized system requires
the permission of at least one user in that system. If there are thousands
of bitcoin public nodes, you require the permission of at least one of them
to participate in bitcoin. No one considers bitcoin "permissioned" because
of this. Do you agree?
On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 1:15 PM Cloud Strife via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Barrier to entry in PoW is matter for hardware and energy is
> permissionless and exist all over the universe, permissionless cost which
> exists for everyone no matter who because it's unforgeable.
>
> Barrier to entry in PoS is being given permission by the previous owner of
> a token for you to have it via transfer or sale, both choices they never
> have to make since there are no continuous costs with producing blocks
> forcing it. A permission is an infinitely high barrier to entry if the
> previous owner, like the premining party, refuses to give up the token they
> control.
>
> You're skipping the part where you depend on a permission of a central
> party in control of the authority token before you can produce blocks on
> your rasberry Pi.
>
> Proof of stake is not in any possible way relevant to permissionless
> protocols, and thus not possibly relevant to decentralized protocols where
> control must be distributed to independent (i.e. permissionless) parties.
>
> There's nothing of relevance to discuss and this has been figured out long
> long ago.
>
> https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-system/wiki/Proof-of-Stake-Fallacy
>
>
> https://medium.com/@factchecker9000/nothing-is-worse-than-proof-of-stake-e70b12b988ca
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 7:13 AM James MacWhyte via bitcoin-dev <
> bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> @Lloyd wrote:
>>
>> Of course in reality no one wants to keep their coin holding keys online
>>> so in Alogorand you can authorize a set of "participation keys"[1] that
>>> will be used to create blocks on your coin holding key's behalf.
>>> Hopefully you've spotted the problem.
>>> You can send your participation keys to any malicious party with a nice
>>> website (see random example [2]) offering you a good return.
>>> Damn it's still Proof-of-SquareSpace!
>>>
>>
>> I believe we are talking about a comparison to PoW, correct? If you want
>> to mine PoW, you need to buy expensive hardware and configure it to work,
>> and wait a long time to get any return by solo mining. Or you can join a
>> mining pool, which might use your hashing power for nefarious purposes. Or
>> you might skip the hardware all together and fall for some "cloud mining"
>> scheme with a pretty website and a high rate of advertised return. So as
>> you can see, Proof-of-SquareSpace exists in PoW as well!
>>
>> The PoS equivalent of buying mining hardware is setting up your own
>> validator and not outsourcing that to anyone else. So both PoW and PoS have
>> the professional/expert way of participating, and the fraud-prone, amateur
>> way of participating. The only difference is, with PoS the
>> professional/expert way is accessible to anyone with a raspberry Pi and a
>> web connection, which is a much lower barrier to entry than PoW.
>> _______________________________________________
>> bitcoin-dev mailing list
>> bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org
>> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
>>
> _______________________________________________
> bitcoin-dev mailing list
> bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org
> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
>
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