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The Stellar Consensus Protocol | David Mazières | Talks at Google

Talks at Google · talk · Watch on YouTube

Distributed systemsCryptography

What it is

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 Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as the protocol designer's own detailed explanation of SCP.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “This is a great video explaining SCP in detail”

    Detailed explanation of the Stellar Consensus Protocol.

    sjs382, 2018-01 · Recommendation · in “2018 Stellar roadmap”

  2. “Here's a good video of his talk at Google”

    Protocol designer's talk at Google.

    malgorithms, 2019-05 · Recommendation · in “Keybase and Stellar is live for everyone”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: stellar, consensus protocols, byzantine fault tolerance, quorum slices, distributed systems

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