Here's the Stellar team's blog post about this. While there's no attempt to conceal this, it's also not being spelled out clearly enough: the Ripple/Stellar "co

Here's the Stellar team's blog post about this. While there's no attempt to conceal this, it's also not being spelled out clearly enough: the Ripple/Stellar "consensus" model is a centralized and does NOT provide the guarantees which Proof-of-Work does in Bitcoin. https://www.stellar.org/blog/safety_liveness_and_fault_tolerance_consensus_choice/ https://www.stellar.org/blog/safety_liveness_and_fault_toler...