Hi, I have some questions about the online offline accounts and participation key hopefully you can (partially) help me with. To bring an account online you have to generate a participation key for that. What is the idea behind that key being valid between specific rounds? (–roundFirstValid / --…

Hi Kasper, If a machine is compromised in the future we don’t want that to compromise participation keys used to sign votes in the past, so what we do is essentially generate a keypair per each round. So of course this means that the participation key will grow in size according to the number of r…

Thanks Liz for the extensive answer, very helpful. One more question about the part key. (I’ve tried this with an expired key) I copied the part key to multiple nodes. On all the nodes the partkey is listed under goal account listpartkeys How will the network respond with multiple online nodes hav…

Hi Kasper, Copying a partkey to multiple nodes is dangerous as it might cause your nodes to inadvertently equivocate votes. So you should always make sure your registered partkey only exists on a single node. And if you believe your partkey was compromised in some way, you should generate and regis…

[image] liz: it might cause your nodes to inadvertently equivocate votes What do you mean by this, @liz ?

@ChaseHunter I think that if your nodes land in different partitions of the network, they might have different views of the network, which could cause them to vote differently. For example, if one node sees one block proposal and the other one sees another, they might vote for different blocks. Voti…

But what are the consequences when it does happen?. When you double sign like in Tezos, or Cosmos a part of your stake will be slashed. How will foul play be punished in Algorand?

According to the Algorand’s consensus protocol, at any time on each node, there is only one valid vote from each part key. If one part key signs multi-votes from multi-nodes, each node may just see a single different vote for some value. This part key should be thought as a bad user. If such users …

how to change account status to online!? could you guys please explain in detail!?

is this video tutorial enough? Make your algorand account online - YouTube

All the documentation to participate in consensus is provided there: [image] Overview - Algorand Developer Portal Algorand Developer Docs, SDKs, REST APIs, CLI tools, ecosystem projects, metrics dashboard and sample code, how-tos, and news from the Algorand developer community …

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What do you mean by this, @liz?

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