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The Spork has been proposed here: https://github.com/PIVX-Project/PIVX/pull/975

It would not make the network any more vulnerable if we keep the same level of decentralization (i.e. if each coin-owner keeps his personal, self-managed staker node). If otherwise, a considerable number of stakers decides to use a service (so to not have to keep any node online) that would be a...

First off we should use the same convention to name things, as in the doc, otherwise we generate confusion. - the cold-staker is the one that stakes. It's the online node.. (so the "hot" node) we call it cold-staker because it's staking "cold" coins (spending keys are presumably offline). - the...

As explained in the doc, when staking, the cold-staker can only send to the same P2CS script. That means that the original value of the stake input plus the stake reward of 2 PIV “goes into” a contract, which is exactly the same as the one being spent during the stake (so the cold-staker can...

Hello all. I'm opening this thread to collect feedback and possible concerns on the "Cold Staking" upgrade proposed for the PIVX network. As it is a feature that provides indubitable benefits but also carries possible risks, it is worth having an open discussion, weighting pros and cons, before...