# kaal:claim:3125827-024

**Claim.** A healthy expertise will have near unanimous consensus on every evidence of work validation pool, and that very unanimity creates an impediment to development, because honest members risk their stakes by voting for untested changes.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- well functioning expertise where all members run the same validated algorithms

**Source quote.**

> A healthy expertise will continually have near-unanimous consensus on every evidence-of-work validation pool. This creates an impediment to development.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Secure Proof of Stake Protocol* (2018), 3 The Reputation Verification Platform, page 13

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Secure Proof of Stake Protocol (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3125827

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**Failure mode.** unanimity-blocks-innovation  (family: enforcement-gap)

**Topics.** consensus-and-security, institutional-design, governance-design, risk-and-incentives

**Keywords.** validation-pool, consensus, protocol-evolution, governance, slashing-risk

**Related claims.**

- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782210-037

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