Secure Scuttlebutt replaces a global account-and-state model with identity-owned, signed append-only logs that peers replicate according to whom they follow. The resulting state is local and subjective: two nodes can hold different valid views without a consensus round. For Open Epistemic Intelligence, it is a precedent for provenance and propagation with a necessary limit: cryptographic signatures connect entries to keys and log histories, not automatically to verified human authorship.
Every identity owns one append-only log, signed by its own key. That log is the only thing that gets replicated.
Peers gossip the logs of the identities they follow, so each node ends up with a partial view assembled from who it chose to listen to. Two nodes on the same network can hold different pictures of it and both be correct.
There is no global namespace and no consensus round. The protocol has run a live social network for years, which makes it evidence rather than a proposal.