This is part of our series on a year of Bittensor experience, leading up to our anniversary at the 13th of July. After describing honest, rogue, calculative, blockchain-savvy, overfitting, devops, (over)analyzing, clueless, slow, lazy, (un)lucky and idle miners, we make a short summary of what it takes to be a #winning miner. Please let us know what you think in our Discord channel!
For those still reading along, it should be clear that the analysis of miner behaviors is essential to the design of a healthy subnet. The discussion of subnet and validator design that follows, must be read with the miner archetypes in mind. Miners will always (be trying to) find the easy way towards incentive: that’s all it takes to be a #winning miner. Miners embody what we see as the hacker mentality. That’s not a bug, it’s a feature. As a popular AI just told me: “The hacker mentality, in its essence, is a way of thinking that emphasizes problem-solving, creativity, and a deep understanding of systems.”
Our goal is to make the honest miner a #winning miner. Recognizing miner behaviors is essential to reach this goal, and categorizing it, as we did in this series, hopefully helps other builders as well in their quest towards building healthy subnets.
The typology also helps inform design decisions on subtensor development (i.e. how the Bittensor blockchain operates), and streamline discussions about the ecosystem, as this catalog allows for improved predictions of miner responses to ecosystem changes. Better at least than predictions we see in discussions based on cherry-picked anecdotal evidence, that we see so often on Discord. We invite anybody to share comments or questions on Discord, either in the SN29 channel or via DM. We are open to expanding the catalog further or to improve on articles – some of you already did.
The following three articles will first discuss the Dirac and the flat incentive landscapes, and then the optimal incentive landscape, that can be found between those two extremes.
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