Right, so this is not robust against 51% attacks. If there’s a 51% attack against the system, then it’s cost-free for the attackers, and furthermore, it’s costly for everyone who doesn’t join the attackers. This is quite a dangerous equilibrium, and potentially could even incentivize the centralization of staking at the base layer (do you want to be sure you won’t get slashed for disagreeing? Then join the binance pool that already has 37% of all ETH in the oracle and has a direct phone line to the bitfinex pool that has another 15%!) The lack of “subjectivocracy” backstop makes this issue unavoidable.
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