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Re:Stellar Consensus Protocol: Proof and Code by lectrick on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @03:15PM (#9343131)
> you actually make sure all of those 50 web sites can talk to all the sites they consider important

This requires you to trust the 50, correct?

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Re:Stellar Consensus Protocol: Proof and Code by mazieres on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @04:49PM (#9343871)
Well for safety it's a logical AND, not an OR. But for liveness you'd most likely you'd have some threshold. For example, you might that at least 34 of the 50 are honest.
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