eosio.prods has the following permissions (see https://eosauthority.com/account/eosio.prods#keys):
15/21 active (controls the eosio account)
11/21 prod.major
8/21 prod.minor
these are updated at the start of each block. What are the prod.major and prod.minor permissions used for?
Answer courtesy of Michael Yeates on Telegram https://t.me/c/1139062279/173476
Major and minor are just lower threshold permissions which can be used for anything which requires a lower threshold, they arent used in the core at all.
We use minor here to allow 8/21 to remove an entry from the whitelist.
Every time they need a tx executed they need to go to the BPs to get them to trigger it.
