Info

• Author(s): @BFGNeil, @anthonyra, @elontusk
• Start Date: 2021-09-27
• Category: Technical, Economic
• Original HIP PR: HIP draft – Validator Denylist #284
• Tracking Issue: HIP 40: Validator Denylist #285 (this)
• Status: In Discussion

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Summary

While the situation with regards to Proof-of-Coverage gaming has improved and additional enhancements are intended, we need a backstop prevention mechanism that allows us to quickly allow the network to grow and deal with obvious gaming and spoofing situations as they materialize.

This plan proposes that validators would maintain a denylist file of Hotspot addresses which are selected from a basic floor function, selecting the hotspots where earnings are abnormal, and then this is likey followed up with more metrics (see unresolved questions)

This proposal has two consensus mechanisms:

1. how Hotspots are added or removed from the denylist
2. whether validators choose to adopt the community denylist