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Hi guys,
I’m super excited by the fantastic participation in the Gsame of Stakes sign ups.
The team is working our way through the registrations and checking for signed waivers. Not having a signed waiver is the most common reason for rejection. If we have time after we processed all the signups, we will reach out to see if we can get signed waivers from folks left out their signature or deal with someone of late registration requests that have come in.
Here is what’s coming next.
I’m targeting November 5th for the start of Game of Stakes.
Here is how Game of Stakes will start.
We will not be doing a decentralized network start for Game of Stakes. Instead Tendermint will run some centralized validator nodes and all the accepted applications addresses will start the game with Stake. After approximately 12 hours, the Tendermint validator nodes will unbond and the network will be operated by the players.
Your chances of winning of will be maximized by bonding a validator immediately at start. Given the global distribution of players, it’s impossible to pick a time thats convenient to everyone.
I’ll be on Pacific time then. I’ll update on zero hour as we get closer.
Here is what I am looking at for parameters. Fixed inflation at 100,000 % and initial stacks of 10,000 stake for each player.
Thanks for the update Zaki, it has truly been hard to focus on anything else during DevCon. I think there are still some questions open regarding the Game of Stakes and I think that the pushed back start is a great opportunity to answer some of those questions beforehand.
So what I would be suggesting/asking for is that the Cosmos team is doing an AMA about the GoS. This could happen either on Riot, Youtube or Twitch (I saw that the cosmos dev team streams there with username “cosmos_development”). It could be one hour sometime in the next week. I understand that the timing of this is tricky since all validators are living in different time zones, but I’m confident we can manage that as we also had many successful, international launch ceremonies.
What do you think about this? I believe, this could enhance the whole experience of GoS, because everyone can ask questions officially.
We are anticipating November 7th at 8 am PST with Zaki and two validators for the Q&A if you have questions can you add them here too? We are debating wether YouTube live is the best platform or possibly GoToWebinar. Either way we want to have a recorded version, but would love to have your questions ahead of time in case you can’t attend.
Note: due to travel conflict we moved it to November 8th at the same time.
Hi,
Thank you for holding a Q&A session! I am actually planning on attending the Q&A session, but just in case, I will upload my questions here as well:
I read that the total prize pool for GoS is 300,000 Atoms, but it wasn’t very clear if this prize will be given in a form of delegation from Cosmos Team (Interchain Foundation), or as a pure transferring of Atoms to the winning attendants.
Is the Interchain Foundation planning to delegate their Atoms to participants who show excellent performance during the Game of Stakes? Or are they planning to delegate Atoms based on different standard of evaluation?
Most of the Validator nodes are located in Europe and the US, and therefore, I assume that the connection from Korea or other Asian countries are unstable. Have you considered any handicap advantage options for regions with unstable connection due to location factor?
What is the KEY to winning the Game of Stakes? The rule says that we are able to increase the amount of stake through actions such as 1. Staying Online, 2. Delegating, 3. Producing Blocks and 4. “Certain other actions and challenges completed during the game”. Although you may not be able to share detailed information, but we would like to have some idea of what “certain other actions and challenges” might be.
Will there be a disadvantage in earning inflationary stakes during the game if missing blocks occur? Or are all participants given equal amount of inflationary blocks if they do not miss 5000 blocks in a row? (Are inflationary atoms calculated for every block?)
What would be the resolutions and prevention for the two cases/attacks below?
A participating team, formed with a good number of team members have all of their members register to GoS-one registration per person-to delegate their genesis stake to one single node.
Stealing(?) other nodes’ key information to set up a double signing scenario
