Perturb faces validator bottleneck amid miner disputes
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SN26 experienced timeouts and selective score zeroing affecting most miners while top three UIDs remained unaffected, with community suspecting coordinated attacks. Team acknowledged centralization concerns in governance Q&A, clarifying that self-mining and owner code opacity are permissible under Bittensor rules. Core issue: insufficient validator capacity. Aznergnox proposed a mining pool wrapper for the recently announced WTA and increased subnet tempo.
- •Widespread miner timeouts; only UIDs 1, 4, 248 scored 100% on latest tasks
- •Community suspects top miners attacking others to prevent score competition
- •Team confirmed no Bittensor rule forbids owner self-mining or centralized setups
- •More validators needed to resolve bottleneck; evaluation paused pending resolution
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