Roberto Saltini

Another ### Pros is - Increased decoupling of the software components

Thanks @OisinKyne for raising this point. In my original proposal, I (wrongly) assumed that the validity check could have been performed without requiring communication between the DVC and the BN....

Overall, I think that: - if we believe that one of the DBs is more reliable than the other, then we should just use the DB that we think is...

@adiasg Thanks the clarification. What do you think of option 3 above? The idea with Option 3 is to use the VC's anti slashing DB at most for initialisation purposes...

> The helpers in `confirmation-rule.md` are not used in the specs tests, correct? > > It would be nice to add some unit tests in `consensus-specs/tests/core/pyspec/eth2spec/test/bellatrix/unittests/fork_choice/test_confirmation.py` to validate the functionality...