Joyce from Stellar here. Thanks! As we were working on the white paper, we realized how difficult it was to explain complex concepts like federated Byzantine agreement.

We know it’s part of our jobs to make these ideas understandable. That way more people can join the dialogue and think of ways this infrastructure can be used to build services for their communities, which may be really far from the nearest computer science program. So we decided to add a lighter approach in hopes of making it fun for people to learn.

Hi Joyce, thanks for chiming in! I'm glad Stellar is committed to elucidating the ideas behind the technology, and this is a thoughtful and creative approach. Reading the graphic novel first helped me understand the idea behind quorum slices while reading the paper. Can't wait to see more of this!

The hard part is often explaining something. And if you want to change how money works, you need to be very good at explaining.

It's actually AMAZING! I've actually been pretty deeply embedded in the crypto community for a while and have spent some amount of time with the Stellar folk, and I after reading the gn I understand Stellar (and even the blockchain) significantly better! At least in a way that requires a lot less cognitive overhead to mentally tinker with.