A comment on staking

[Howard Treesong]

It's clearly a problem; how much of a problem is more difficult to determine.

It's a problem because it establishes additional economic incentives for collusion. There's a lengthy discussion of this idea on Jonathan Kaplan's livejournal; I'm too lazy to reprise it here, so here's a link:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/jon...1.html?#cutid1