Getting slashed (losing ~your entire stake) is *only* for equivocation, aka signing conflicting blocks. Separate topic.
and the fact that you think this kind of thing is infeasible... well I don’t know what to say to that...
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What's infeasible is to keep a staker offline long enough to come anywhere near costing his full stake. Cost to attacker >> cost to staker.
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Again, applies for PoW too. DDOSing miners is doable (more doable, since speed matters much more under PoW). But not a major system risk.
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And the argument against the inactivity leak is contingent on the slashed stake being burned or non-returnable. I haven’t seen a definitive decision made that that will be the case. I have seen proposals for escrow and returning after return to duty.
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If you can afford to DDoS someone indefinitely such that they are bled dry and “give up” on retrieving slashed stake or earning it back, then it’s likely the staker didn’t understand the risks to begin with. Standard risk assessment/acceptance process here.
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for the last time, PoW miners have the option of going offline to save cost when price drops. PoS validators don’t.