10:33 <stellar-slack> <hsxuif> in SCP draft (July 14, 2015), the last sentence above Section 6.1, "Concepts such as candidate values and ballots must always be interepreted in the context of a particular slot...", probably "interepreted" is a typo?

12:09 <stellar-slack> <lab> i guess "interpreted"

12:24 <stellar-slack> <hsxuif> i guess so

12:34 <stellar-slack> <hsxuif> i have difficulties understanding this sentence : "Nodes produce a candidate value x through federated voting on the statement nominate x." (Sec. 6.1) , is the subject of "nominate" "the statement" or "nodes"? or maybe wrong tense for "nominate"?

12:40 <stellar-slack> <hsxuif> oh, i saw for the "candidate" definition, there is similar phase, e.g., "v has ratified accept(nominate x)", does "nominate x" has a special meaning (a widely used term)?

12:42 <stellar-slack> <hsxuif> guess that "nominate x" denotes "the statement", right?

12:45 <stellar-slack> <sacarlson> I guess "nominate x" is the address you vote for as who you want to receive the inflation benifits. \

12:45 <stellar-slack> <sacarlson> but as far as I know 99.999% of the voteing power belongs to Stellar so no real need to read much into it

12:46 <stellar-slack> <sacarlson> but I could be wrong

12:48 <stellar-slack> <sacarlson> "nodes produce" above so maybe this is a differnet subject

12:50 <stellar-slack> <hsxuif> hi @sacarlson , i'm trying to understand the paper. i find that treating *nominate x* _the statement_ that would be used for voting makes sense for me, at least literally.

12:51 <stellar-slack> <sacarlson> so your reading some part of the SCP consensus but I'm reading it out of context so I'm not sure

12:51 <stellar-slack> <sacarlson> what part of the consesus are you interested in?

12:51 <stellar-slack> <hsxuif> yeah, i guess i can continue reading it

12:52 <stellar-slack> <sacarlson> I've read it to some degree but only keep focus on what I see as important

12:53 <stellar-slack> <hsxuif> sec 6, SCP: A federated Byzantine agreement protocol

12:53 <stellar-slack> <hsxuif> yes, you are a developer, and there is no real need to understand it entirely

13:10 <stellar-slack> <sacarlson> yes it's above my paygrade to fully understand it, but I have faith in that they spent the time to figure out something that works most of the time

13:19 <stellar-slack> <hsxuif> Absolutely! In SCP and SDF we believe :)

14:52 <stellar-slack> <buhrmi> @hsxuif: u work on something too?

15:02 <stellar-slack> <hsxuif> @buhrmi: not really, simply reading the paper :)

15:03 <stellar-slack> <buhrmi> ah, okay... do u know if voting power is tied to native currency in any way?

15:03 <stellar-slack> <buhrmi> i've been working on a fork that removes native currency from the network and initializes with an empty ledger. but haven't thought about how it could affect voting

17:59 <stellar-slack> <hsxuif> @buhrmi: sorry i'm a newbie here :,(

18:01 <stellar-slack> <buhrmi> me too

19:10 <Kwelstr> welcome to both of you