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by latchkey 687 days ago
Even better... ask why, after all these years, they still have to use a UNL, despite it being a significant point of centralization.

https://xrpl.org/docs/concepts/consensus-protocol/unl

"trust us, our validators are good too!"

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Their "consensus" protocol is an http call to their severs to download a json file of "trusted" servers?

That's two layers of "trust us"!

The "justification" is that anyone can install whatever list they want. Uh huh.