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# Slashing

Slashing penalizes miners that either fail to provide reliable uptime or act maliciously against the network.

In Filecoin, miners are succeptible to two different kinds of slashing: *storage fault slashing*, and *consensus fault slashing*.

### Storage fault slashing <a href="#storage-fault-slashing" id="storage-fault-slashing"></a>

This term encompasses a broader set of penalties which are to be paid by miners if they fail to provide sector reliability or decide to voluntarily exit the network. These include:

* **Fault fees**: a penalty that a miner incurs for each day a miner's sector is offline (fails to submit Proofs-of-Spacetime to the chain). Fault fees continue until the associated wallet is empty and the miner is removed from the network. In the case of a faulted sector, there will be an additional sector penalty added immediately following the fault fee.
* **Sector penalties**: a penalty that a miner incurs for a faulted sector that was not declared faulted before a *WindowPoSt* check occurs. The sector will pay a fault fee after a Sector Penalty once the fault is detected.
* **Termination fees** is a penalty that a miner incurs when a sector is voluntarily or involuntarily terminated and is removed from the network.

### Consensus fault slashing <a href="#consensus-fault-slashing" id="consensus-fault-slashing"></a>

This penalty is incurred when committing consensus faults. This penalty is applied to miners that have acted maliciously against the network's consensus functionality.