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Whitepaper v. 0.9.7 “Instrumentality of mankind”
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Comprehensive Comparison of Consensus Mechanisms
The reliance of human beings on governments is undisputed. We believe that many countries are willing to try and make their financial networks more secure, decentralized, and just. So we are willing to help out any administration or any other form of government that is willing to deploy human node–based national currencies, backed by citizen human nodes or even a Fath monetary system for fair, direct, and proportional distribution of emission and extraction of excessive monetary supply.
Fees generated through the verification of a user’s unique existence can also become a solution in terms of funding a universal basic income. Governments that decide to make this experiment and pursue a transcendent solution will get the full support of the international human node community, and the Humanode core will assist those courageous people with research, analytics, and development, if Vortex, the Humanode network decision-making body, approves.
As we are building a system that is based on highly experimental data, we want to ask all the white hats to try and pwn our network hard. The future security of a network is very dependent on the amount of pwnage it has to go through in the early days of its testing and creation. Someone finds an angle of attack, tests it, shares the results with the Humanode community, and makes a proposal to research and develop a solution that mitigates this attack. Then, if this proposal is approved by Vortex the team behind the solution gets a grant with rewards for pwnage. So please come and test our system’s resolve, we will get stronger with each attack.
One of the interesting features of Humanode that we pursue is consensus agnosticism, the ability to change the consensus mechanism of the network if the Humanode DAO approves it. It derives from the necessity for constant research on the most suitable consensus for a leaderless system with equal validation power of nodes. Different consensus mechanisms have various pros and cons that constantly evolve, change, and shift due to the large amount of research done by thousands of scientists across the world on this topic. Swappable consensus mechanisms would allow the Humanode network to evolve and not be constrained by a framework of a singular consensus. Moreover, the Polkadot SDK ecosystem has ongoing attempts to support such a feature.
