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TypicalHog@lemm.ee 9 months agoBitcoin has literally 2 pools who have more then half of the block production. Also not all PoS systems have locking and slashing btw.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Pools that people could leave if something suspicious was happening.
Very different than an individual entity.
TypicalHog@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Well… Cardano has like 30 different pools that add up to 50+% of the block production.
If something sus was happening with one or more of those - people can just leave them.
Same thing but 30 is better than 2.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Definitely agree, 2 isn’t ideal, and there’s some level of trust happening there because of it.
There’s been pushes over the years to get people to split apart more, and I’m pretty sure there was a significant split due to this at least once in the past.
It’s gotta be either something like reliability, ui/ux, ease of setup, otherwise all I can come up with is a larger pool pays out smaller amounts more consistently and people prefer that?
TypicalHog@lemm.ee 9 months ago
We in Cardano have a “saturation” limit per pool. So if you have more than like 70M ADA, you don’t get rewards for anything above that. This encourages people with a lot of ADA (either theirs or delegated to them) to run multiple pools. We call them multi pool operators. Cardano community has a really strong sentiment against delegating to multi pools. And if you are wondering if that figure I mentioned earlier (30 pools to reach 50+%) is just a few entities with many pools. No - this is actually 30 individual MPOs (multi pool operators).