Cardano Will Achieve Full Decentralization By March 2021
30 October 2020 16:05, UTC
The parameter "D" refers to the scale of decentralization, a reading 1 = fully centralized and 0 = fully decentralized. Over time, the parameter "D" will gradually decrease from 1 to 0. At this stage, "D" = 1. However, over time, depending on the stability of the network, independent operators of the stake pool will start producing more blocks.
For each subsequent epoch after the Shelley hard fork, the handover rate to pool operators was 0.02 per epoch. This will continue until "D" equals 0.
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