1/ Nice to see more in-depth articles investigating the extremely important role randomness plays in blockchains
h/t @aparnalocked
However, IMO this analysis of randomness is incomplete
https://www.tokendaily.co/blog/randomness-in-blockchains …
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I know Tendermint favors safety over liveness, which is applaudable. But it has its own problem. Its strategy is to fall back on social consensus. In any case, the safety vs liveness tradeoff is a fundamental problem to PoS that doesn't exist for PoW. Most solutions are hacks.
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... that attempt to work around this flaw, at the cost of adding a huge amount of needless complexity. And they are all bandaid solutions.
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yes because you don't want the randomness source to be the bottleneck, even in a consistency favoring protocol. The very next sentence of the same passage.
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I'm generally trigger-happy because I'm frustrated with all the PoS discussions of randomness that say nothing about unforgeable costliness