Ethan Buchman

Fast syncing is on by default. We switch it off when we're caught up. This is about switching it back on if for some reason we start to lag far...

Yes, though it's not the highest priority. Also it's unclear exactly how we should do this - would you mind writing up an overview of how to do it before...

It depends largely on the application. Also note validating bitcoin consensus only requires checking proof of work, while tendermint requires verification of all the validator signatures, which is much more...

the Cosmos app has some well known bottlenecks in the DB used at the application layer that are likely a significant factor in this - see eg. https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/issues/2131

> An expected yearly growth of 1/3 or even 1/5 has the potential to put immense pressure on the project Yeh, we should probably tone it down. We've also been...

Ok thanks. Worth us taking a look. Also need to spend more time seeing how the other PoS communities are doing, eg. NXT, Steem, etc. > the importance of creating...

Lotion uses Tendermint, a general purpose Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus engine. It's much more correct, secure, and flexible than PoA. You can build Proof of Stake as an economic layer...

Isn't this an issue with centralized exchanges today anyways? Presumably a CEX would still be a legally identifiable entity and this would be illegal. Not that it really stops them....

Hmm Dash still uses mining, encourages the coins as a currency, and doesn't have security deposits above 1000 Dash. Maybe 7% is too low.

> also they are not typed (we just get an error message and the reason is embedded in a string) May be worth trying to get these typed upstream in...