Ingress Proof Reward Fees

[DanMacDonald]

Related to #181
Depends on #183

Current Milestone Tasks

• Add a consensus config param for the number of ingress-proofs required to promote data (default 1)
• Add a consensus config param for how many ingress-proofs must come from submit ledger miners (default 1)
• Make sure Perm Data Price includes the minimum_storage_fee from Term Storage Pricing #183 per required-ingress proof
• Add the ingress-proof fees to the endowment when the storage tx is posted to the submit ledger
• When the transaction promotes, reward the miners that provided the ingress-proofs for promotion
• Validate all of the above during pre-validation of blocks.

Term & Perm Storage Fees (requires permissions)

During the promotion process, Irys requires X number of ingress-proofs to be generated in order to promote a data-storage transaction from the Submit ledger to the Permanent Publish ledger. During single-node testnet this number is one but in multi-node we will want something closer to 10.

The promotion process is described in more detail here

Multi Ledger Tech (requires permissions)

In Irys’s multi-ledger system, each ledger index (slot) has 10 assigned miners responsible for provably storing the Ledger entry data in that slot. To promote a transaction, a certain number (m) of ingress proofs must come from the Submit Ledger miners assigned to store the data about to be promoted. Thus ensuring that m/n of the proofs are from miners actively committed to storing it (increasing the assumptions the protocol can make about the availability of the data). For multi-node testnet, the m value is set to 5.