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proof-of-stake is a method by which a blockchain network aims to achieve distributed consensus by asking users to prove ownership of a certain amount of an asset.

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In Casper PoS, what is a finalised block?

In addition to economic finality - i.e. the economic assurance of an invariant, there is also subjective finality: a client's unwillingness to change their mind. Once a client sees a finality thresho …
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What is GHOST and what is its relationship to Frontier and Casper?

Casper began life as an adaptation of the principles of GHOST to security-deposit-based PoS. The most complex version of Casper uses a subtree-choice rule, executes all transactions and includes bets …
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What is the network overhead of Casper?

So for every bonded validator node we have bandwidth overhead that is linear in the number of bonded validators, and in the number of blocks. This means that for the network we have overhead that is q …
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What is casper?

There are a number of reasons I much prefer Casper over PoW: In PoW, any coalition of >50% (or 25-33% if selfish mining) can very profitably censor and revert history. In Casper, it takes close to 10 …
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