Why so complicated? We can just require miners to have some waves on generating address, I mean without leasing.
I think it doesnāt make much sense to make things more strict for large-balance account, since you anyway can use several addresses for single owner/node.
I was thinking about this thing too. When we will be ready to switch to provably secure PoS weāll most probably anyway will need to introduce some real waves depositing for miners. Moreover itās natural for PoS to require miners to be an investors and this is one of important security factors.
I would implement a rule requiring miners to have some share of waves their own. Then we can activate this rule starting with letās say 1%. After that it can be automatically increase it by 1% every month until we reach target threshold of 5-10%
I said itās safer with a lease. As a node owner, I donāt want to store the dat file with a balance on the remote server. I also wouldnāt like to have any connections between the node and the PC with my balance except connections via the blockchain.
Yes you can have several addresses within 1 node but do you think lessors will be leasing to different wallets if there are several knowing that it belongs to the same node (what about real decentralization then)? Of course if they are presented as different pools then its different story but own balance on the nodes would still be required for larger amount of leased waves (may my proposed initial lease-able amount of waves of 100k probably could be ignored and only real balance taken into consideration). In the end we do need a proper way to identify legit players by making them staking their own waves. (My initial proposal was to just check for own generating balance but if there will be more secured POS for storing and accessing own balance then that should be definitely used.
Also why not we limit number of generation address on 1 physcal node by connecting node nonce to the generator address
As I checked the idea that i have proposed before, i found that there have been idea behind ānode generation uptimeā - ie with node being new it could be restricted to get a higher balance leased to the generator address and that limit could be increased as the time passes.
Anyway we started a discussion now and thatās good, if ideas which are stated here are yet raw we could polish them and have a better secured decentralized network
Well, in general i see one problem with this: it will limit the overall amount of Waves participating in the staging process and this will make a 51% attack cheaper.
Furthermore, i really donāt like to have any funds on the node itself, at least as long as a Smart Account (in this case for 2FA) can not be a forging address. I assume that this is not possible, right?
Having funds on the node would make the whole thing a lot more unsecure in comparison to a usual wallet, e.g., in cases in which the server is hacked.
@alexkof just define a number, required to run node. thatās it. do it after 2fa.
limitation with percentage of funds can cause more centralization. like you said.
I support that, the number of coins should be 1000 in node wallet. imo it is fair enough when you think the future of waves chain.
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Well, what Hawky says is also my largest concern, it can get cheaper to get a 51% attack possibility if the total amount of waves leased decreases.
I also spoke with Alexkof in Moscow about this, and after giving it a thought, I canāt help but thinking you are mostly solving a problem that doesnāt really exist.
Most nodes that have a decent share in the network are also in possesion of a decent amount of Wavesā¦ and I am even using the Waves I own to boost other starting nodes to help them growā¦ so you would kinda kill that project as well.
I donāt think this really solves anything. Decentralisation is something you cannot enforce this way. Incentivising small nodes and discouraging leasing to (very) big nodes is the way forward I` say. Itās a process and needs time. Rome was not build in a day and a really well decentralised network will also take a while.
What you write here means that you value key from an account with several millions forging power much less than account with several tens of thousands. That is what probably should be fixed.
How much 51% attack costs right now? Imagine you are leasing pool and you have an account with several millions of leased funds. For much are you ready to sell it to me?
This may be possible if we decide to do this. Currently itās not, but we can start with this. Although I donāt know if itās proper way or not. As I said, miner shouldnāt value account with 1m forging power less than account with 50k real waves.
actually best would be to support decentralization by creating more physical nodesā¦ leasing its self kills an idea of āmaybe i should start my own nodeā cause itās much more easier to lease. I like the waves team initiative to suppor new/small nodes by leasing them waves to be able to participate in generation process.
Limiting amount of lease-able waves would require most of waves holders to rethink of what they are doing and maybe start their own nodes if they are willing to support network and guarantee its decentralization - every1 needs to understand that decentralization is achieved only if there are alot of active generating nodes. Yes at some point it might seem that it would be easier to set 51% attack but we do still have leasing.
if it could be possible to set script contract, which would distribute fees to the lessors automatically and earned fees are locked for that purpose only, then more smaller nodes would receive waves to their addresses as lessors are guaranteed to receive profit form leasing.
This is true. But nodes that pay out 100% also are a reason that people lease. If you hold large amounts of waves and having your own node is much more profitable than leasing you will achieve decentralization. People now lease because a node is costing money and leasing is making money (and much easier).
Setting up a node is pretty easy, even more so if you donāt have to do payouts because you only lease to yourself.
I do not understand you. The Leasing function does not imply the storage of funds at the leasing address. Right? So the value of the pool address is equal to the value of the accumulated mining rewards, rather than the generating balance.
you can come up with many different algorithms that soften the requirements for small nodes and tighten for large ones. If the volume of large nodes decreases as a result, then this will increase the resistance to attack 51. Am i right?
Only option to commence 51% would be buy waves and have high own generating balance but I think it is considerably costly 51% attack. That is actually why I changed my mind from initial proposal of just having leaseable max amount to be ie 10 times higher than own balance. Additional time variable could give network a better protection as well - older nodes should be considered more legit than new ones.
Donāt forget that it is not distinct-able which node actually working with specific generation balance, which means that in order to identify that you probably have to attack all nodes - but as long as wallet.dat is encrypted and config file does not have any relevant information regarding wallet you are safe even if access to node is compromised. Just make sure you are clean every time you restart your node (check for possible change of API key and other keylogging stuff if applicable). If there will be a more secure way of starting a node without a possibility to compromise wallets integrity or its generating balance then that probably always a good solution for all of us.
Or maybe we need to look for another option of how to limit leases? ie MRT?
I am heavily against this proposal, let me elaborate.
Security: Hawky mentioned it already in this thread - today, roughly 44% of all WAVES are participating in the process of generating new blocks. If we were to cap a nodeās mining power at 10x its own stake, itās more than likely that the aforementioned 44% is to decrease significantly. Let me extend: Over 20 million WAVES are sitting on exchanges, Waves itself holds another 5 million at the least. That gives us a rough cap of 75 million WAVES that could participate in mining, either directly or indirectly through a lease.
Thus, we would require node owners to own a minimum of 7.5 million WAVES and this figure increases the more uneven leasing stakes are distributed. I think thatās a ridiculous requirement to make as it heavily impacts the security of the Waves blockchain.
Core Principles: A crucial core principle of blockchain is perimissionlessness. One should be able to join a network without any limitations/censorship/pre-requirements. If a node operator HAS TO have a effective balance on an address, I think that defeats this core principle. The current minimum of 1000 WAVES is only meant to secure the network (it eliminates a known attack vector in Nxtās PoS-algorithm) and itās not required to have it as an actual balance on the node.
In this context Iād also like to include fairness. Not everyone can afford to purchase WAVES even though he would like to contribute to the community by running a node. I donāt think itās in the spirit of crypto to limit his workās potential but rather to embrace his efforts.
Iām not of the opinion that a node operator has to actually hold WAVES. If he runs a stable node/pool, he is already doing a greater deed to the community/network than someone who just purchased some WAVES. Why would be oblige him to buy WAVES so he can continue to run/scale his operation?
Iām also heavily opposed to a maximum generating balance. Any interference with the free market goes totally against the spirit of crypto. I wish we would try to educate our users/investors/community more about the consequences of unequal distribution of mining balances. And I actually think that has worked in the past: We at WavesGo actively asked our lessors to move their stakes to smaller nodes for the sake of decentralization. We also pushed to decrease the minimum requirement to 1k WAVES, again opening up new possibilities for small pools. Lastly, we even changed the algorithm in favor of small nodes to support further decentralization of the Waves network. The results are impressive: WGO went from 50% to a mere 22% (from 17m+ to 10m); WNET halfed its stake by asking large lessors to distribute their stakes and, in turn, small pools have gained considerably. If you compare our poolsā stakes with those of Ethereum or Bitcoin, youāll see that Waves is actually pretty well-decentralized. What we actually need is more nodes and we do not achieve this by increasing the entry barrier for newcomers.
Your ācore spiritā means that 60% (26 mill Waves) stakes belongs to top 5 nodes. Which make decision to accept/deny critical updates of the network. And by your ideals it is normal that they havent any investments in the platform. May be because you are from top 1 node team?
I repeat my last post - you can invent the algorithm that soften the requirements for small nodes and tighten for large ones. The limitation of max generating balance can begins from 1 mill for example.
Lol. The problem I see here all the time is that most of the algorithms based on utopian ācoreā principles not taking into account the behavior of real people. The āaskā method against the blockchain ideology.
If nodeās api is open then yes, if not then you might guess but do not know for sure. I thought it was clear as I meant it. Because in most cases i would make node api access public if would have considerable own balance. For query purposes we can always have separate nodes which does not participate in generation process (ie waves teams nodes as example). I though my point of ānot available informationā was clear. If not now it probably is
