SAFE Network concerns from an old employee

[AndreasF]

Ideally the vote would be proportional to proven storage space, but I cannot recall seeing this mentioned before.

I agree, although I’m not sure whether storage space or rather bandwidth will be the bottleneck and should determine the weight of a node’s vote. I’ve argued for something like that - although my point will probably be too vague for your taste - here:

Security Nodes to protect the network?

I think a key requirement for a secure network is: If you make decisions for the network (i.e. vote as part of a group), you must have invested in the network (e.g. CPU, bandwidth, Safecoin, disk space). If it’s easy to get lots of votes, an attacker can do it and compromise the network. If we can make sure that to get 50% of the votes in the network, you e.g. have to provide more bandwidth and processing power than the rest of the network, then that makes an attack really expensive. Another ke…