# kaal:claim:3266953-026

**Claim.** Producing a bad block is punished by slashing, since the producer loses the availability stakes they posted to be considered in the random selection of block producers.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** asserted

**Holds when.**

- blocks rejected by the validation pool

**Source quote.**

> Producing bad blocks is slashed because the bad block producer will lose their availability stakes (the tokens the producer staked to be considered for the random selection of block producers) in the validation pool.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Gopinath Sivalingam, *Reputation Protocol for the Internet of Trust - Conceptual Whitepaper* (2018), Anchor Protocol, page 16

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Gopinath Sivalingam, Reputation Protocol for the Internet of Trust - Conceptual Whitepaper (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3266953

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**Topics.** institutional-design

**Keywords.** slashing, availability-stake, block-production, validation-pool

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