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Facebook has abandoned Diem. It is now an open-source project that's ripe to play around with. There are some neat, performant design choices in HotStuff, the u
by glitchc 4y ago
Facebook has abandoned Diem. It is now an open-source project that's ripe to play around with. There are some neat, performant design choices in HotStuff, the underlying consensus protocol.
- dboreham 4y agoSee also this fork of the project: https://github.com/OLSF/libra https://github.com/OLSF/libra
- c7DJTLrn 4y agoIt was considered hot with the radioactivity of Facebook from the moment it was born. Governments were pretty quick to say no, so no surprise it died.
- dontknowwhyihn 4y agoI actually thought they were going to go ahead with it, lawmakers be dammed, in the spirit of Uber. Laws don’t apply to big tech until they come into direct conflict with banking I guess.