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A comment on Stellar Protocol: A Federated Model for Internet-Level Consensus (2016) [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:Stellar Protocol: A Federated Model for Internet-Level Co... by zeroxfe on Thursday January 11, 2018 @03:29PM (#16127513)
> This paragraph does not explain how they are different from Ripple's approach only that they are in fact different.

I think the last line sums it up: "SCP is the first Byzantine agreement protocol to give each participant maximum freedom in choosing which combinations of other participants to trust."

As opposed to Ripple, where the trust is heavily biased towards the starter membership list, making it more centralized than one would want.

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Re:Stellar Protocol: A Federated Model for Internet-Level Co... by runeks on Thursday January 11, 2018 @04:57PM (#16128374)
> As opposed to Ripple, where the trust is heavily biased towards the starter membership list, making it more centralized than one would want.

It’s biased because of a technical issue (consensus must be reached). How does the Stellar protocol solve this technical issue?

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Re:Stellar Protocol: A Federated Model for Internet-Level Co... by cantrip on Thursday January 11, 2018 @03:45PM (#16127671)
How exactly does that work?

To me, the statement says essentially "you can trust us more than Ripple" with no explanation as to why.

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Re:Stellar Protocol: A Federated Model for Internet-Level Co... by zeroxfe on Thursday January 11, 2018 @04:21PM (#16127993)
The explanation is in the PDF. OP was just pointing out the high-level description of how it's different. Obviously, the devil's in the details.
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