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<ben> good day, @eva . Yes I believe we have met through twitter before.
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<ben> I know @vanessa from our tech education work prior to her stellar gig.
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<ben> @eva: I do have a question though, you might be able to help me with. I am looking for a good low level (as in "technical") documentation about the stellar protocol itself. like what is signed where, which signatures and such.
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<ben> I am investigating a project concept to bring distributed mini-banks to the unbanked with dump phones and in order to understand if it could be built on top of stellar, I need to understand the plumbing a little better.
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<ben> Do you happen to have such a document? (And I do not mean the white paper about the consensus-algorithm, I have already found and read that one of course ;) )
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<ben> THANKS
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<sacarlson> dump phones? would android phones qualify?
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<sacarlson> oh maybe dumb phones
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<ben> hahaha. yes. sorry. typo.
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<ben> like old nokia ones. only GSM stuff
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<ben> well, technically that is true. the problem is there still isn't any internet in africa.
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<sacarlson> IC
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<ben> and once it comes, all predictions show, it will take quite a time before the currently unbanked will be able to afford it...
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<ben> as usual the trickle down, trickles very, very, very, very slow for the poorest...
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<ben> @sacarlson: do you know of any have way decent docs like that for stellar?
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<ben> like, let's assume I had to implement my own node... is there any decent starting point to understand the plumbing of the protocol?
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<sacarlson> there is good documents on the old API but that is about to be obsolete. the new version is oposite with not enuf working API documented
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<ben> I see. that's what it looked like to me, too ...
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<ben> so at least I am not the only one experiencing that nor did I overlook something obvious (happened before ;) )
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<sacarlson> I was able to get the old system working in a prototype in about 2 weeks. It shouldn't be too much different in the new version
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<ben> do you maybe know of any alternative implementation of stellar-core by any third party?
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<sacarlson> the present stellar-core code is working ok, it's the upper layers that is still not fully developed and documented
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<ben> is it implementing the same version of the protocol?
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<sacarlson> I'm hoping to create at least for myself a bridge lib to enable me to plug in what I have now into the new
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<sacarlson> it's just the API that I work with, I don't worry about the low level protocal
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<sacarlson> no the new API looks much different not just plug in play from old to new without some kind of bridge
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<sacarlson> the new system will also have new features that I'm interested in that include multi-sign
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<ben> multi-sign is exactly one of the features I am investigating.
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<ben> do you have any other references for me to read about that? Or should I just digg into stellar-core?
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<ben> yes, that one. thanks heaps, @sacarlson !
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<sacarlson> anything on the new stellar-core only works on lower level like from ruby-stellar-core nothing on horizon is stable as far as I know
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<ben> that's fine with me. I am more concerned about the capabilities of the protocol itself at the moment.
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<ben> for what I am working on, it might be useful to reimplement (parts of) core in a memory-safe-language (prolly rust) anyways.
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<sacarlson> to run ruby-stellar-core you will need to run a localhost running core also
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<sacarlson> I looked at the code just now for multi-sig and not it's not been touch in over 30 days. there has been big changes in stellar-core since then that if that worked before it probly won't now
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<sacarlson> prolly rust? what language is that?
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<ben> prolly=probably. "rust" is the language: