| Name | Price | 24H (%) |
|---|---|---|
Bitcoin
(BTC)
| $7,143.18
| 4.37% |
Ethereum
(ETH)
| $183.68
| 7.59% |
XRP
(XRP)
| $0.189196
| 3.47% |
Tether
(USDT)
| $1.00
| -0.03% |
Bitcoin Cash
(BCH)
| $233.71
| 6.72% |
Bitcoin SV
(BSV)
| $193.30
| 6.32% |
Litecoin
(LTC)
| $41.86
| 3.52% |
EOS
(EOS)
| $2.63
| 4.29% |
Binance Coin
(BNB)
| $15.70
| 4.80% |
Tezos
(XTZ)
| $2.36
| 9.09% |
Nothing at Stake
The Nothing-at-Stake problem is a security & consensus vulnerability that is hypothesized to plague Proof-of-Stake (PoS) cryptocurrency networks in events of forks.
While in the event of a fork in a PoW blockchain the consensus is maintained through the allocation of computational power; however since in fork vents participants are distributed the new chain’s assets for free; when a fork happens in a PoS network, due to the asset distribution, the network validators are able to retain control over both networks evenly and for the newly forked child-chain, the validators have no “skin-in-the-game” and thus no reason to act fairly.
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