kaal:claim:3931933-018

Reward focused participation crowds out technical engagement: many Casper testnet participants lacked the expertise to run nodes, and their questions concentrated on reward payments with little to no focus on technical topics.

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Judging by the discussion and questions in the telegram channel, many testnet participants also did not have the required expertise to run Casper testnet nodes. Questions primarily focused on reward payments, with little to no focus on the technical topics.
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Wulf A. Kaal, Hybrid Secure Proof of Stake (2021), Testnets as remedies to platform centralization, p. 5
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Wulf A. Kaal, Hybrid Secure Proof of Stake (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3931933

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