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In POS people bet on the blocks to be added to chain and the honest block wins and the people who have voted for honest blocks get a share in the rewards. But one thing i am still confused is, who really mine or submit these blocks?

I did a lot of search and i am clear how POW works , but in case of POS ,how a participants decides which block is honest to not get penalized if bet goes wrong .

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But one thing i am still confused is, who really mine or submit these blocks?

In POS there are no miners, there are just validators. Every node that wants to be a validator has to put some ETH in stake and they cannot spend these ethers. Now coming to who will be validating a block, the changes of a node getting a chance to add a block to blockchain depends on their ETH in the stack. The higher no of ethers in the stack, higher is the probability of getting the responsibility of adding a block.

I did a lot of search and i am clear how POW works , but in case of POS ,how a participants decides which block is honest to not get penalized if bet goes wrong .

In POS, if a validator misbehaves, the nodes verifying the block will reject the block and the ethers of the validator that he has put into stake will be slashed off. I am not sure what happens to these ETHs. So validators won't risk their coins to add an invalid tx to the blockchain. This will maintain the integrity of blockchain as in PoW.

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  • That's really good and simplifying explanation , so basically miner are replaced by validators and these validators are responsible for adding blocks of transactions to chain,and there is no extensive computing needed to calculate specific hash as compared to POW. Regarding the verifying nodes mentioned in the second para, what is the qualifying criteria for these verifying nodes . Are they public or a closed group ?
    – vineet pant
    Commented Apr 27, 2018 at 9:17
  • Yes, there is no extensive computation as this was the major limitation of Pow and I see this was the most obvious reason people needed some other also that consumes less power and gives same security. In ethereum each node runs every transaction inside a block, so it's a public group that validates the work done by validator.
    – Prashant Prabhakar Singh
    Commented Apr 27, 2018 at 9:33

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