Stop right there, you don’t have a clue about Tendermint.
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lol dude I'm taking quotes straight out of your link
How about provide an actual argument or point out how I misunderstood Tendermint? do you deny that your "external process" requires pausing the chain for an undetermined amount of time, and assumes that 1/3+ must be "bad"?2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
I gave you all the resources you need, maybe you should read the spec or whitepaper, esp Ethan Buchman's thesis. I could keep spoon feeding you facts about Tendermint, like how it doesn't fork with merely a network partition, but it's time you start chewing your own food.
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> and assumes that 1/3+ must be "bad"? // That's not an assumption, that's just a result of the facts of the consensus algorithm. It says that a fork won't happen if +1/3 *aren't* bad. You've completely misunderstood even the most basic logical statement about BFT/Tendermint.
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Ok I re-read, so Tendermint won't fork in the case of a network partition taking away 1/3+ of the active validator set, because you simply choose to HALT the chain instead of continuing on with the forks. (I admit I don't always remember which PoS implementation does what).
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But by choosing to halt, you’re just trading one problem for another. If you would have chosen liveness instead, then you’ll have a problem with (b), but now instead of (b) your chain faces the risk of regularly starting & stopping.
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I'd say this might be _slightly_ better than blindly choosing liveness over safety. It’s still bad, but you pick the lesser of two evils.
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Essentially, Tendermint’s preference for "safety over liveness" eliminates (b) but the risk of (a) is now multiplied several folds. My larger point remains: not as robust as PoW.
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You’re closer to truth but you need to take off your pow colored glasses first.
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Bitcoin currently chooses liveness, which is the worse choice of the two. After a network partition heals you’ll likely end up with two forks and two groups that disagree about which chain should be called Bitcoin, or, it will shed a large fraction of people who finally “get it”
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