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by neilk 3837 days ago
Stellar solves the same problem in a different way - nodes pick whom to trust in the network. So it doesn't burn vast quantities of energy just to stand still, and it's not vulnerable to someone with vast computing resources.

I'm not an expert but it makes a lot of sense to me. Most real-world decentralized institutions work kind of like this.

https://medium.com/a-stellar-journey/on-worldwide-consensus-...