!!! Overview
[{$pagename}] is a platform that connects banks, payments systems, and people.

[{$pagename}] Stellar is an [Open Source] [protocol|Stellar Consensus Protocol] for value exchange.

[{$pagename}] Servers run a software implementation of the [Stellar Consensus Protocol], and use the internet to connect to and communicate with other [{$pagename}] servers, forming a global value exchange network. Each [{$pagename}] servers stores a record of all “accounts” on the [{$pagename}]. These records are stored in a database called the “[Stellar Ledger]”. [{$pagename}] servers propose changes to the ledger by proposing “transactions”, which move accounts from one state to another by spending the account’s balance or changing a property of the account. All of the servers come to agreement on which set of transactions to apply to the current [Stellar Ledger] through a process called “[consensus]”. The [consensus] process happens at a regular interval, typically every 2 to 4 seconds. This keeps each [{$pagename}] server's copy of the ledger in sync and identicalUsing the [{$pagename}], you can build [Digital Wallets], banking tools, smart devices that pay for themselves, and just about anything else you can dream up involving payments! Even though [{$pagename}] is a complex distributed system, working with it doesn’t need to be complicated.

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* [#1] - [Stellar_(payment_network)|Wikipedia:Stellar_(payment_network)|target='_blank'] - based on information obtained 2016-08-29- 
* [#1] - [Stellar Network Overview|https://www.stellar.org/developers/guides/get-started/index.html|target='_blank'] - based on information obtained 2016-08-29-