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Lack of validator expertise degraded the initial Casper testnet, with only around 85 percent of testnet nodes up to date and roughly 140 active machines contributing nothing to the network.

Lack of expertise also afflicted the initial Casper testnet. Only around 85% of the testnet nodes were up-to-date, with the rest of the active machines (around 140 machines at the time) not contributing to the network at all. Judging by the discussion and questions in the telegram channel,

Wulf A. Kaal, Hybrid Secure Proof of Stake (2021), Testnets as remedies to platform centralization, p. 5
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3931933 · source PDF

Wulf A. Kaal, Hybrid Secure Proof of Stake (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3931933

• initial Casper testnet

failuresupport: evidencedfailure: unqualified validator participationfamily: cold-start-and-bootstrappingconsensus-and-security

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