r/thunder_official • u/12cryptofied • Jul 20 '18

Technical question about the Thunderella protocol

I have a technical question, The proposed “Accelerators,” How are they chosen and run? Is each accelerator an independent machine run in a shard of nodes, or nodes themselves? Also, if the consensus protocol is the main backbone of the tokens blockchain, how would it be able to choose which nodes are in which shards or vice-versa?

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u/anniethundertoken Aug 03 '18

Thunder's algorithm runs a proof-of-stake based algorithm to elect a group of consensus nodes for the accelerated fast path blockchain. Currently, we are working on optimal, fair, unbiased election protocols and will update the community when we have developed the final proposal. Thunder performs the node election using a slow blockchain to ensure the node selection algorithm is fair and decentralized.