Casper was supposed to be a proof of work chain and they used to notarize every hundred blocks or something. You can flip that on its head and have a proof of stake system wherever hundred blocks or every thousand blocks even is sort of notarized by a Proof of Work block. But then you still have to produce a bunch of proof of work making it probably you know intangible. Yeah I think there are some needs like actual technical solutions but practically like you're saying we trust no developers anyway so might as well hard coded in.
In this Blockchain 101 episode, we sit down with Axel Ericsson of Vest (previously 1Protocol) to talk about Cryptoeconomic Primitives, incentive models, designing smart equilibria, and staking.
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