Quote from: CryptoUnicornRider on October 19, 2018, 06:07:31 PM

Quote from: barborrico on October 19, 2018, 05:07:49 PM

Wild witness wasting bytes appeared!
https://i.imgur.com/pt9JFMv.png

Quote from: CryptoUnicornRider on October 19, 2018, 04:50:21 PM

True, be an official witness requires a high reputation within the Byteball community and the chance to have your witness unit selected as lighthouse is very low to not say inexistant. But this point can't stop you to run your own witness node and to set it in your main wallet to be your own witness and have your transaction confirmed faster. And if your friends trust you, you can be their permuted witness. And more people trust you, more chances you have to see your witness unit selected as a milestone of the main chain and even give you the hope to be elected as official in future.

Would you trust any individual? I dont know who to trust, so I let the hub/network restrictions decide.

Quote from: CryptoUnicornRider on October 19, 2018, 04:50:21 PM

In plus, running a non-official witness node will create an alternate version of history that could save all the chain integrity in case of unfortunate behaviors by one or more witnesses.

All chain integrity could be harm by unfortunate behaviors by one or more witnesses??!?!? Really??

Quote from: CryptoUnicornRider on October 19, 2018, 04:50:21 PM

By the way, in my interpretation, the majority of witnesses means 6+1.

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Well, if you don't trust yourself barborrico, who can you trust ;-)

Honnest witnesses are here to warranty the chain integrity as lighthouses/milestones. And as I stated to pineapple express, bad behaviors can be detected by honnest witnesses. For instance, if dishonnest witnesses collude in an attempt to rewrite history, this foolish act will inevitabily generate orphan units and that breaks the chain integrity of these units until the genesis unit. Honnest witnesses will then select a parallel history to keep chain integrity.

Sorry barborrico and pinneapple express,

Small imprecision, it's not only honest witnesses that can detect bad behaviors and rupture of chain integrity but also normal nodes. So, normal nodes can change their path until older witness-authored units or worst until the genesis unit through alternate chains.