International payments is not an easy challenge to tackle, and Stellar is working diligently to upend the current aging and fee-ridden systems for a more democratized method of international asset transfer. In this episode we have Nikhil Saraf, Principal Software Engineer at Stellar Development Foundation, to educate us on the core features of Stellar, how it achieves consensus, and the practicals of how Stellar can be integrated into regular business and consumer applications.
Links:

Keybase - Wallet for Stellar and end-to-end encrypted chat application: https://keybase.io/
Best way to contact me (via Keybase): https://keybase.io/nikhilsaraf
Coinbase Earn tutorial videos for Stellar: https://www.coinbase.com/earn/stellar
Stellar's Reddit community: https://www.reddit.com/r/Stellar
Stellar's chat groups (Keybase): https://keybase.io/team/stellar.public
Documentation for Stellar: https://www.stellar.org/developers/
Stellar Github Repos: https://github.com/stellar
Kelp, open-source market-making bot for Stellar DEX and centralized exchanges: https://github.com/stellar/kelp
blog post summarizing SCP: https://medium.com/stellar-development-foundation/on-worldwide-consensus-359e9eb3e949
SCP whitepaper (Simplified version): http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/blog/simplified-scp.html
Full SCP Whitepaper (very detailed): https://www.stellar.org/papers/stellar-consensus-protocol.pdf
Talk explaining SCP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmwnhZmEZjc
Animated community video on the Stellar Consensus Protocol: https://www.lumenauts.com/lessons/stellar-consensus-protocol
Blog post about "The Liquidity Problem": https://medium.com/stellar-developers-blog/kelp-why-we-built-it-the-liquidity-problem-425ca5558c1d
Docker quickstart image to run a Stellar Node: https://hub.docker.com/r/stellar/quickstart/
Block Explorer for Stellar: https://stellar.expert/explorer/public
StellarX, frontend to the Stellar Decentralized Exchange: https://www.stellarx.com/

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