Weight comes from uptime, observed behaviour and the trust graph. Never from a resource money can buy.
Blocks, transactions, accounts and contracts — read straight off the chain.
A safe-by-default high-level language that compiles into the low-level tier you can also write by hand.
The network coin. Nine decimals, unsigned 64-bit amounts, no floating point anywhere near it.
Protocol releases, engineering notes and decisions on record
The complete weight formula, committee selection with partial rotation, commit-reveal seeds and median-relative slashing now pass roughly 29,800 assertions — all as pure, clock-free functions.
A node may post funds as public evidence of infrastructure spend. It affects one reward bucket and carries no consensus weight — that is the line that keeps PoTB from becoming Proof of Stake.
