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Inflation rate and economic incentives
The intent of the white paper is for the inflation rate to be a constant yearly percentage of the total supply. The current implementation is an approximation of that.
This is a subject that often ...
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Limitations of the self-amending ledger?
The "protocol" can be upgraded with on-chain-governance, everything else cannot.
(But as we see with current storage optimizations, other parts can also be upgraded, without on-chain-governance.)
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Limitations of the self-amending ledger?
The goal is to narrow down the as much as possible what can be upgraded to the parts which require agreement between all the participants. This is referred to as the "economic protocol". Fundamentally,...
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What does "stakeholders govern the protocol" exactly means?
"Stakeholders govern the protocol" is what it says, there is on-chain governance process where amendments to protocol are voted by stakeholders. An overview of how it is done can be found here.
It is ...
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Hard fork vs onchain-governance for Tezos
Here is a link where Arthur B. talks about the need for hard forks:
https://medium.com/tezos/there-is-no-need-for-hard-forks-86b68165e67d
The summary is that new features should be done via on chain ...
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How does Tezos voting process work in practice?
There is already a Guide from Obsidian, about Voting with a Ledger Nano
SOURCE: https://github.com/tezoscommunity/FAQ/blob/master/Compile_Mainnet.md
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Who bakes and endorses the blocks for the testnet during proposal?
The existing bakers bake on the testnet chain during the testing phase. What happens is that a new testnet is created and forked from the first block during the testing phase. Bakers will run both the ...
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Please clarify. Who precisely is able to vote on protocol changes?
Only bakers can vote, in order to be a baker you need 1 roll delegated to you (currently 10,000 xtz). Otherwise you can delegate your xtz to any baker that you trust with your vote. If baker A will ...
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Understanding Abstentions/Pass Vote
There is I believe here a slight confusion on your part in the interpretation of the word "quorum" here because as per implementation there are 2 conditions for the amendment to be accepted:
the ...
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Inflation rate and economic incentives
Total maximum reward per year is a fixed number of XTZ therefore the effective amount of percentage inflation due to rewards is due to reduce over time.
It can be updated through a protocol update ...
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Where is the protocol change proposal injected?
Unless I am reading it wrong, there was one operation injecting both proposals:
https://tzscan.io/onydFJLWdGhfKNBfbnSLmqDu93j9NRimkbQm9WqLWYG8eyZUyTF
in Block 332624: https://tzscan.io/...
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Where can I view a proposal's source code changes?
It's the responsibility of those that are proposing the changes to provide the amended source code - we can then validate the changes with the proposal hash. I assume Nomadic Labs will provide this ...
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What exactly is tested during Testing Phase of the governance cycle?
During the 48h cycle with the fork chain.
The test chain now lasts as long as the third phase of the amendment process, so approximately 3 weeks.
They are simply processing the same transactions ...
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How can delegators find out the voting intentions of Bakers?
There are really two votes here.
Voting on which proposal which actually be voted on. There might be several proposals, but only one proposal can win per proposal period.
After a proposal has been ...
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How to create and distribute a governance proposal?
If you have an idea to modify the Tezos protocol, the first and IMO most important thing you need is feedback (and enthusiasm!) from the community (experts of all the scientific fields related to ...
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Does the delegate's stake change their vote's weight?
Every delegation contributes to the number of votes a baker represents, where each vote is equivalent to 8000ꜩ (a roll).
Let's imagine I hold 24000ꜩ, and I delegate them to a baker. My delegation ...
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