Quote from: SlipperySlope on December 09, 2014, 03:54:52 AM

Quote from: delulo on November 07, 2014, 03:10:58 PM

Thanks for your reply.

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The peer that hosts the mint is selected by the configuration agent from among the super-peers. The simplest method is to take-turns round-robin. The duration of the mint responsibility is a parameter that can be adjusted. Given that the mint hosting schedule can be efficiently published in advance to all peers, then the mint hosting duration could be anywhere from 10 minutes to perhaps one week.

But what are the (objective) criteria by which the mint role is assigned? My worry is that there is no valuable/scarce resource necessary to become the mint and therefore control the network...

The most valuable resources (for an attacker) seem to be "node-stake" and the quantity of nodes since everyone seems to be able to become a super peer no matter of his stake size (correct?). Isn't this much easier to achieve than pure stake?

A.I. Coin will launch with a minimum of five super peers, located in geographically dispersed datacenters. The founding super peer operators will vet candidates that become new super peers when needed due to growing transaction volume.

A joining node cannot become a super peer otherwise.

and anyone with a name "slipper slope" should be somebody I can totally trust to give my money to, no?

just saying....