Musings to start a conversation.
The following is my understanding of how it is planned to work:
- Only elders vote
- Adults and children connect “the elder group” but not each other
- Elders all connect to each other
- Elders connect to neighbor groups
- Elders are elders because they’ve stuck around through enough churn events.
- Elders vote to create an ordered series of events, ideally asynchronously. (Sticky point right now)
Not sure of:
- Do adults and children gossip or only get pushed information from elders? (My understanding so far is it’s pushed to them because they’re only connected to elders)
- Does block n require block n-1 to be confirmed (blockchain style) or just require than everyone eventually be in the same order?
- Things like a split obviously need an order so n will rely on n-1, but does it always?
Thoughts:
- Building an agreed upon list of ordered events asynchronously via vote seems to be a non sequitur. (From my admittedly uneducated standpoint)
- Having adults go from “just here for the free pizza” to “I help control the group” seems like a big jump without any other qualifications other than “I didn’t fail for the longest”. Seems like the stage should be the “let me prove I can be an elder” stage.
- Elders have too much power and exclude the “thoughts” of adults.
- It is more likely to have good actors (average Joe home user) stuck in the adult stage because it’s a home computer that restarts and such and (imo) shouldn’t be ignored completely.
- PARSEC could fake async with a “backlog” of 5-8 messages in the list. If someone that needed to vote is holding it up, they are not reliable and should be demoted (age/3?) immediately and move on. At most an attacker could hold up a group a few messages.
i like the way you think
people that benefit more from the network being online and not hacked are good actors too (as long as they’re not mad men)