From cbcfe1f8ca7f029d79cf1e526b12add560059c69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vitalik Buterin Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2017 03:41:29 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] DF -> BP --- casper4/papers/casper_economics_basic.tex | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/casper4/papers/casper_economics_basic.tex b/casper4/papers/casper_economics_basic.tex index 8f197fb..0b02fd1 100644 --- a/casper4/papers/casper_economics_basic.tex +++ b/casper4/papers/casper_economics_basic.tex @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ Let us start off our griefing analysis by not taking into account validator chur \item (Mirror image of 3) A censorship attack where a majority of validators does not accept commits from a minority of validators \end{enumerate} -Notice that, from the point of view of griefing factor analysis, it is immaterial whether or not any hash in a given epoch was justified or finalized. The Casper mechanism only pays attention to finalization in order to calculate $DF(D, e, LFE)$, the penalty scaling factor. This value scales penalties evenly for all participants, so it does not affect griefing factors. +Notice that, from the point of view of griefing factor analysis, it is immaterial whether or not any hash in a given epoch was justified or finalized. The Casper mechanism only pays attention to finalization in order to calculate $BP(D, e, LFE)$, the penalty scaling factor. This value scales penalties evenly for all participants, so it does not affect griefing factors. Let us now analyze the attack types: