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The Stellar Consensus Protocol | David Mazières | Talks at Google
David Mazieres presents the Stellar Consensus Protocol at Google, introducing federated Byzantine agreement. The model lets participants choose whom to trust rather than assuming fixed membership.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as the protocol designer's own detailed explanation of SCP.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Talks at Google
- Topic
- federated byzantine agreement
- Format
- talk
- Level
- advanced
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2021
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Crap. I'll reproduce the answer here, then: > Tl;dr: Stellar’s protocol (SCP) uses a decentralized state propagation where each node commits to a value if every node it deems trustworthy agrees while Ripple uses a supermajority vote (80%) among all validating nodes. Stellar achieves better …
sjs382 on Hacker News · 2018-01
In 2018 Stellar roadmapDavid Mazières (designer of the protocol) has given a number of talks. Here's a good video of his talk at Google, and I believe it's the one I watched a couple years ago: [VIDEO]
malgorithms on Hacker News · 2019-05
In Keybase and Stellar is live for everyone
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