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Network stability
Derived node: assembled mechanically from the claims carrying network-stability. A roster, not an adjudicated definition.
Every claim under this term
- 3782214-004 : Benevolent dictatorship is more efficient and effective than messy democracy in the short run, but centralized governance of that kind threatens the long term stability of a powerful public peer to pe
- 3782214-018 : Internal competition for profit creates a natural tendency to centralize power as members differentiate themselves through wins and losses, and this centralizing tendency is an additional destabilizin
- 3782214-019 : Groups with decentralized, diverse values require protocol centralization in the form of explicit enforceable rules, because stability depends on the impartial application of law to display fairness,
- 3782214-020 : The very explicit rules that unify a diverse group destabilize it over the longer term, because internal corruption and external change render a fixed rule structure ineffective or inefficient.
- 3782214-021 : A for profit, open, diverse valued organization run under rigid Rule of Law is maximally unstable, so powerful stabilizing forces must be added to its governance rather than assumed.
- 3782214-026 : The alternatives to a reputational system for countering profit driven instability, namely external stabilizing forces such as governmental fiat and rapidly expanding profit opportunities, are inadequ
- 3782214-028 : Instability generated by the rigidity of rules is solved by making the rules dynamic, with an appeals process stabilizing short term cooperation at the level of the single contract and legislation han
- 3782214-033 : Without unifying transcendental ideals, liminal cases will fragment a decentralized network; transcendental values are therefore always necessary to maintain the stability of a network and should be t
- 3782214-034 : Legitimacy requires members to believe the governance process is binding and will persist, which puts legitimacy directly at odds with a dynamic structure whose rules members know will change; in the
- 3931933-019 : Despite its shortcomings the 2021 Casper testnet fulfilled its purpose, providing a test bed for dApp developers and testing node software upgrades before deployment on the Casper mainnet.
- 5225296-001 : An abrupt transition from Proof of Stake to Secure Proof of Stake would destabilize networks built on stake-based incentives, because stake is a fungible economic asset and reputation is non-fungible