2018 Stellar roadmap • Hacker News Board

Re: 2018 Stellar roadmap

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Post by EastSmith » Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 8:16 PM UTC

jcousins wrote: post #38

EastSmith wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ha! Found the email, recovered the account and found 125.899988 lumens. Wonder what I did with the rest? Not sure if they were 6000, or 500 or something else.

It was 6000 in the original airdrop, and after that there was an airdrop against bitcoin addresses in a proportional fashion (only if you chose to claim them, if i am recalling correctly.)

It is not from a bitcoin giveaway for sure. I guess I just played with it, too bad I can not see the transaction history.

Re: 2018 Stellar roadmap

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Post by desireco42 » Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 8:17 PM UTC

I am pretty happy with my Lumens. I got them during the initial airdrop and then later I got more. I followed on and off what is happening and Stellar really looks promising to me. Transactions go very quickly, api is decent and fairly easy to work with.

As far as Coinbase, I don't think they are very good in handling things, BitcoinCash didn't go well. It would make sense for them to support Stellar, but who knows what they are planning to do. It would make sense to support a bunch of other as well.

Re: 2018 Stellar roadmap

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Post by stale2002 » Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 8:19 PM UTC

solean wrote: post #40

yohann305 wrote: post #23

Two days ago, Stripe announced they were dropping Bitcoin. And now Stellar (A Stripe-seeded company) announces their 2018 plans. Good job on the guy that saw it coming in HN comments ! Note: I'm not bashing Stellar, I'm actually a big fan. : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16216329

In 2014, Stripe gave Stellar a $3 million loan in exchange for 2 billion lumens, which is now worth around $2 billion. They still have those lumens. I wonder why they would drop bitcoin support and start pushing Stellar...

They dropped Bitcoin because transaction fees are really high, and the bitcoin core team has no intention of solving the problem.

Maybe in 18 months, when the mythical lightning network gets released they will add it back. But not now.

Re: 2018 Stellar roadmap

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Post by guiomie » Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 8:28 PM UTC

readams wrote: post #11

I read this whole article and I'm still not sure if this is a real thing or a parody.

Same here. Hard to take them seriously.

Re: 2018 Stellar roadmap

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Post by nileshtrivedi » Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 8:35 PM UTC

solean wrote: post #40

yohann305 wrote: post #23

Two days ago, Stripe announced they were dropping Bitcoin. And now Stellar (A Stripe-seeded company) announces their 2018 plans. Good job on the guy that saw it coming in HN comments ! Note: I'm not bashing Stellar, I'm actually a big fan. : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16216329

In 2014, Stripe gave Stellar a $3 million loan in exchange for 2 billion lumens, which is now worth around $2 billion. They still have those lumens. I wonder why they would drop bitcoin support and start pushing Stellar...

> 2 billion lumens, which is now worth around $2 billion

That's a bit exaggerated. Lumens are currently trading at $0.58 and such a big sale would have a high impact cost too.

Re: 2018 Stellar roadmap

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Post by rememberlenny » Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 8:44 PM UTC

bkolobara wrote: post #10

As many developers visit HN I will use this opportunity to advertise the Stellar Build challenge[1]. I participated in the past and it's great. Especially to build some fun side projects, learn about distributed ledgers and earn a bit of money. [1]: https://www.stellar.org/lumens/build/

You can make well over a few thousand dollars for learning about crypto and working on a interesting side-project.

I agree to this. If you are interested in getting involved with building a crypto project, but can't justify the time: check this out.

Stellar runs a monthly give away of Stellar coins for submissions by developers. They set out a overall vision of projects, and reward a certain designated amount of coins to the finalists.

Re: 2018 Stellar roadmap

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Post by jakobegger » Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 8:45 PM UTC

tzakrajs wrote: post #29

yohann305 wrote: post #23

Two days ago, Stripe announced they were dropping Bitcoin. And now Stellar (A Stripe-seeded company) announces their 2018 plans. Good job on the guy that saw it coming in HN comments ! Note: I'm not bashing Stellar, I'm actually a big fan. : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16216329

I feel really stupid. Back in 2015, their lead scientist David Mazières explained Stellar consensus protocol inside the Gates computer science building at Stanford to a small group of people back when Lumens were worthless. I was in that group of people and I completely missed the boat.

And here‘s the problem with cryptocurrencies: They might have all kinds of use cases, but people just see a quick way to get rich.

Re: 2018 Stellar roadmap

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Post by terhechte » Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 8:45 PM UTC

otp124 wrote: post #35

oflannabhra wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My account was corrupted during the migration from STL -> XLM. Not even my recovery code works. Multiple support emails with Stellar and no dice being able to access my XLM :( .

Same here; recovery code doesn't work. I reached out to them with no response. Not very promising that they couldn't even migrate early adopters over safely.

Same problem here :-(

Re: 2018 Stellar roadmap

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Post by sonoffett » Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 8:50 PM UTC

stale2002 wrote: post #43

solean wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In 2014, Stripe gave Stellar a $3 million loan in exchange for 2 billion lumens, which is now worth around $2 billion. They still have those lumens. I wonder why they would drop bitcoin support and start pushing Stellar...

They dropped Bitcoin because transaction fees are really high, and the bitcoin core team has no intention of solving the problem. Maybe in 18 months, when the mythical lightning network gets released they will add it back. But not now.

You do realize that there are literally people buying coffee in meatspace today using lightning?

https://twitter.com/alexbosworth/status/955870434230132736

Re: 2018 Stellar roadmap

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Post by pitaj » Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 8:52 PM UTC

nileshtrivedi wrote: post #45

solean wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In 2014, Stripe gave Stellar a $3 million loan in exchange for 2 billion lumens, which is now worth around $2 billion. They still have those lumens. I wonder why they would drop bitcoin support and start pushing Stellar...

> 2 billion lumens, which is now worth around $2 billion That's a bit exaggerated. Lumens are currently trading at $0.58 and such a big sale would have a high impact cost too.

Only if you sell them all at once