An unfriendly group could choose to open unregulated stake pools in order to steal away delegation from regulated stake pools. This could hand over a large percentage of ADA delegation and TX production to a small group of nodes.

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Con: In this scenario, the presumption is that SPOs will use CS to comply with laws while delegators will avoid CS because those laws only affect the SPO and not the delegator. Okay, but without CS, the SPO would be unable to operate at all and the delegator would have fewer choices to begin with.

Cardano Contingent Staking

An unfriendly group could choose to open unregulated stake pools in order to steal away delegation from regulated stake pools. This could hand over a large percentage of ADA delegation and TX production to a small group of nodes.

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Cons

In this scenario, the presumption is that SPOs will use CS to comply with laws while delegators will avoid CS because those laws only affect the SPO and not the delegator. Okay, but without CS, the SPO would be unable to operate at all and the delegator would have fewer choices to begin with.

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An unfriendly group could choose to open unregulated stake pools in order to steal away delegation from regulated stake pools. This could hand over a large percentage of ADA delegation and TX production to a small group of nodes.

Con claim 1

In this scenario, the presumption is that SPOs will use CS to comply with laws while delegators will avoid CS because those laws only affect the SPO and not the delegator. Okay, but without CS, the SPO would be unable to operate at all and the delegator would have fewer choices to begin with.