not if anyone can bring up a node

Again, Federated Byzantine Agreement, like Fediverse: anyone can bring up a node (in this case a network validator)

It’s up to clients/wallets to pick a selection of validators that are not in collusion with each other.

The real loss in FBA design is trustlessness. That is really what PoW provides.

A bad-faith PoW actor still has to pony up ~50% hashrate. A bad-faith validator just needs to spin up a few validatorss and convince people to configure their wallets to pick more of the bad-actor validator nodes instead of honest nodes.

IMO, it’s a small price to pay for the benefit of being (a) super high max. tx/s, and (b) “green”, low-carbon-impact crypto

AFAICT the process of registering new nodes could be decentralized or centrally-managed; neither way is specific to the FBA design.

FBA but it seems relatively centralized

Only as much as the Fediverse is. Not all of us run big nodes or even little monero.town

IMO it would not be any different from today. In theory every wallet can be a node. How many people actually run nodes vs just have wallets? The same people that run nodes today, would run FBA validators.

And the network would support 3 orders of magnitude more tx/s, and consume no more electricity than Fedi services.

it’s been years now but I remember looking at re-org data and just shuddering

Au contraire. The proteome was solved by LLM transformers trained on genetic strings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaFold

Perhaps you are unaware that AI has solved the Proteome. This was expected to be a 100 year project.

Naturally , people die before age 45 and a hell of a lot of women and children do not survive the agony of childbirth

Oh god, another AI hot take 🙄

Yes, OpenAI and Cursor both are waaaaayyyy overhyped & overvalued.

So were pets.com and yahoo.com back in 1999. But that didn’t stop FAANG from becoming honestly trllion-dollar valuation because while there was breathless Internet hype, the Internet was about to completely change the way the world works.

AI today is like the Internet in 1999.

“You cannot regulate the design of a hammer so that it can drive nails but not kill anyone, but you can criminalize the killing of a human by a hammer,” Gawdat said.

God I hate managers who think they’re so deep 🙄

I think the majority of the Monero community shares this concern. If there was a better solution for the purposes of securing a decentralized ledger, we’d move on it quickly. Problem is, in all these years, as a community we haven’t seen a better system.

PoS tends to continually centralize power. End of story. There is no situation where PoS does not ultimately fully centralize.

Ostensibly super fast mechanisms like Nano are subject to insane re-orgs, which they mitigate by checkpointing the chain, which means the re-orgs that should have happened, don’t happen, … it’s a frickin’ trainwreck and would be exposed as such under real-world high scale loads.

IMO the next-best solution to PoW is Federated Byzantine Agreement (FBA) aka “validator nodes” like Stellar. These are crazy high throughput, super efficient, and slightly more centralized – that wallets have to choose a set of validator nodes, and hope that those nodes are not colluding.

Think of FBA Federation as being like the Fediverse: there are semi-centralized hubs. But anyone can spin up a hub and people can migrate easily. It’s not 100% decentralized where every node is identical. But you get orders of magnitude more throughput and less electricity use.

Sorry but with a clickbaity title and a blank page this post smells like an astroturf

Why not, it’s doing its damndest to detect everything else

TBH I think pr0n and cam sites should lean in to Monero.

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This Week in Virology has been shocked aghast and brutal about how mind-numbingly stupid RFKJr is and surrounds himself with the same. They talk about Thimerosal what what insane policy is going down here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvjItbi_6sQ&t=450s

Be safe, kids – don’t buy drugs on the clearnet!

Kind of OT but as a James Joyce enjoyer I like the name, it evokes this paper which always stuck with me

Dawn: A study of the present age and Finnegans wake through a close look at FW page 594, one page sufficient for our time

Literally 250+ pages unpacking one single page of the original ~700 page book, much of which reads like it was encrypted/compressed.

How shitty would you feel, as a hotshot AI researcher who just delivered a model architecture getting way better scores than Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI in all kinds of industry-standard benchmarks …

… and then learn Musk was high some night and just fucked with the system prompt, not knowing really what he’s doing, ham-fistedly trying to make his egostistical conspiracy-deluded self the arbiter of truth and ethics for Humanity

Those other labs are offering pay packages just as attractive as Musk’s

I don’t mind that Trump is kicking the USA in the nuts; the MAGAs love it.

I mind that, because USA is so massive, the whole of humanity is also impeded by these science-denying Christofascists

‘twould be much better if only Crooks’ finger had crooked a quarter second quicker