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Is there a high-level, understandable description of Casper as it's going to be used by rchain?
This is the clearest account I've found so far about Vlad's version of Casper.
Slides: https://www.docdroid.net/hkKViHB/casper-edcon.pdfVideos (about 20 min each)
- part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6boQSQ7IuNY
- part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6-XwnnHT8U
In BTC & ETH, the fee disbursement is part of the block the validators are getting consensus on. In the PPJ scheme, the fees depend on the consensus process itself. If we push the fee distribution transactions to another block, what happens when we rotate validators? We have interested parties leaving---potentially all of them!---and uninterested ones joining. What enforces the correct distribution of fees?
Vlad suggested that we could write a contract that would look at the blockdag and disburse the fees, but that would require rev itself to run.