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49 lines
1.9 KiB
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# Announcement
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## Advantages vs dcrstakepool
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### For VSP Administrators
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- An instance of bbolt db on the front-end server is used as the single source
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of truth:
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- bbolt does not have the sys admin overhead associated with maintaining a
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MySQL database. The database will be automatically created and maintained
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by vspd.
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- The bbolt database is only accessed by vspd. There is no need to open
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additional ports on your front-end server for the voting wallets to access
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the database.
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- Voting wallet servers require only dcrwallet and dcrd. There is no longer a
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VSP binary (ie. stakepoold) running on voting servers.
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- Voting servers no longer need dcrd to be running with `--txindex`.
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- No need to use the same wallet seed on each voting wallet.
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- A new fee address and amount are requested for each ticket:
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- Fee addresses are never reused.
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- Fee amount can be changed freely.
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- No emails or personal information are held. No need to worry about GDPR et al.
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### For VSP Users
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- No redeem script to back up.
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- No registration required - no email, no password, no CAPTCHA.
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- Voting preferences can be set for each individual ticket.
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- No address reuse.
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- VSP fees are paid independently of the ticket purchase, rather than being
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included in the ticket:
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- Multiple VSPs can be used for a single ticket.
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- Fees can be paid using funds from a mixed account.
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- VSP users can purchase tickets in the same anonymity set at solo stakers.
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### For the Decred Ecosystem
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- Solo tickets and VSP tickets are indistinguishable on-chain.
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- Clients and servers can hold eachother accountable for actions. This enables
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users to prove if a VSP is misbehaving, and VSPs to defend themselves if they
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are falsely accused.
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## Disadvantages
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- Front-end is more important than before.
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- Front-end requires dcrd with `--txindex`.
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- Failure cases
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- fee tx doesnt broadcast
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