THELOGICALINDIAN - EOS developer Blockone afresh responded to claims of apprehensive voting activities amid block producers BPs Last anniversary letters emerged that Huobi and added BPs were colluding to dispense votes in the network
Decentralization Means BPs Voting Together?
Brendan Blumer, the CEO of Block.one, responded to the allegations in a blog post appear on Monday, saying:
In effect, to assure EOS’ decentralization drive, the above BPs can appoint in collaborative voting. Such a book appears abomination to the abstraction of decentralization — abnormally back commutual with EOS’ bread holder voting framework.
Blumer in his column appears to present autonomous babyminding as a aisle to decentralization. However, accustomed the EOS accepted voting framework, such an apprehension seems unreasonable.
Commenting on this aforementioned issue, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin opined that EOS’ voting agreement would accordingly advance to boundless ‘quid pro quo voting.’ Once this happens, there is little preventing the accomplishment of ‘voting cartels’ active the arrangement aggregate appear the accomplishment of the goals of a baddest allocation of the system.
Regardless of these observations, Blumer appears assured that the access would crop results, saying:
EOS Constitution – Article IV
Beyond the address consort by EOS supporters and critics alike, the contempo letters of bunco and voting abetment fly in the face of the project’s philosophy. Article IV of the EOS constitution which forbids ‘vote buying’ states:
Without aggravating to unnecessarily nit-pick, the actuality of any anatomy of collusion amid BPs is affirmation that aspects of the project’s babyminding aren’t activity as planned. Furthermore, all allocution of reinforcing the candor of the action ultimately sounds alveolate if such a bearings persists aural the network.
What do you anticipate about the Block.one account apropos the declared letters of bunco and voting abetment amid EOS BPs? Let us apperceive your thoughts in the animadversion area below!
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