Staking
Last year, I pooled money with some friends to run fully-staked validator nodes on 3 different blockchains. We made 3x our investment and learned a lot. Here’s the stuff I found interesting: Inconsistent Rewards These networks weren’t designed explicitly to infuriate little node operators, but it can seem that way. This is a general problem with proof-of-stake blockchains: They incentivize computers to do useful things Because distributed state is hard, they pseudo-randomly elect a little group of computers at any given time to actually do the useful thing Therefore, the computers spend very little time doing the useful thing, so the earnings are sporadic Every proof-of-stake system has this randomness in the earnings....