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Pete Kim
@petekim
1/ I believe that the chain temporarily halting for 6-12 hours is a preferable option to penalizing over 80% of the stakers, especially until we attain a sufficient level of client diversity within Ethereum. We've learned over the years that downtimes don't kill chains.
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
But if the supermajority client (Geth) unexpectedly & suddenly finalizes an invalid chain, how does halting the chain afterward help? Sure, you avoid inactivity leaks for a while, but at restart, those Geth nodes can’t get back to the valid chain without being slashed, since they already attested to the invalid chain
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Pete Kim
@petekim
We'd have to disable inactivity leak and rely on social consensus to revert to the correct chain. Of course, this should be strictly temporary (never for long term) until a set deadline, before which we hopefully achieved adequate client diversity. It's not ideal, but it's less terrifying than destroying 20M+ ETH.
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