Hey @patio11 do you have a link to a shortish explanation of Stellar that (a) assumes I'm technically competent, and (b) doesn't use Harry Potter? Trying to decode metaphor and understand a distributed architecture at the same time is causing me to avoid that months-old tab :-)
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Replying to @zellyn
I don’t; haven’t taken a sustained look at it in a few years. Do the official docs not have a good entry point?
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Replying to @patio11
They do, but it doesn't explain why distributed ledgers make it better than if IBM and Bank of England and a couple others did something similar with regular old databases.
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Replying to @zellyn
I guess that's the $64k question for blockchains. If I were to put myself in the mindset of someone bullish on the technology, permissionless "just connect to our network and transfer these things at will" give people at social remove to BoE substantial benefit over status quo.
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You could imagine, for example, a world where buyer B and seller S both transact in GBP-denominated cryptocurrency held by a sufficiently trustworthy 3rd party without that 3rd party ever approving any of the seven layers between B, S, and themselves.
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Replying to @patio11
That makes sense. I figured your opinions would be interesting, because you seem to hate on cryptocurrencies but like Stellar. :-)
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I hate on cryptocurrencies but can see the glimmer of an argument for Stellar, which is not quite all the way to "like" ;)
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