Hi
I was wondering, we have the equipment to run a casper validator:
As a validator, how in detail do you become an active participant for the next era? What are the requirements to win a slot?
Do we need lots of Casper in order to validate blocks?
The validator generating block is selected randomly. All the validators participate the consensus.
Highway consensus is a continuous, trust-less process where a fixed set of validators engage in scheduled communication to advance the linear chain of finalized blocks, representing the history of changes to the global state of the blockchain. The fixed set of validators may change at each era boundary. The economics of this layer revolve around validator selection and incentivization of participation according to the schedule.
What if you just run a validator but just have minimal self stake?
It has nothing to do with self stake or stake from other delegators. What matters is the total stake. Only the first 100 can be validators.
What about security issues, for example if the node gets compromised, what can be attacked or stolen? As far as ive seen delegators should be save, what about any local keys?
If the validator’s secret key is compromised, the bonded CSPRs, liquid CSPRs are stolen since any one with the secret key can access the account.
It depends on the total stake. The calculation happens at the end of the current era. Only the first 100 can be a validator for the era +1
Btw, can you join discord Casper for future issues/problems?
We are actively working there most of the time.