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Re: Stellar

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Post by lukasm » Thu, Jul 31, 2014, 4:44 PM UTC

tzaman wrote: post #23

jqueryin wrote: post #18

Feel free to send me 1000 stellar in step 4 of the signup process. Username: corey . Had to be the first to ask :) Thanks in advance!

Only if you send 2000 to Tomaz :) EDIT: got 1000 from 'miha'

I finally can use my name as login :) send to lukas :)

Re: Stellar

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jul 31, 2014, 4:45 PM UTC

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Re: Stellar

#33

Post by Walkman » Thu, Jul 31, 2014, 4:45 PM UTC

GregorStocks wrote: post #19

I registered for this and got 5,000.999999 Stellars. Kinda curious about the 0.999999 part...

The values are probably stored in float, which is ridiculous.

Re: Stellar

#34

Post by slig » Thu, Jul 31, 2014, 4:45 PM UTC

mintplant2 wrote: post #29

The "Connect with Facebook" button on Stellar's dashboard appears to be broken, or at least for me, anyway. Clicking it results in a "Loading..." message that never seems to go away.

See if you're not blocking FB with AdBlock or Disconnect.

Re: Stellar

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Post by ernestipark » Thu, Jul 31, 2014, 4:46 PM UTC

Pretty excited for what comes of this. For devs reading, auth doesn't seem to be persistent - if I refresh I get logged out.

Re: Stellar

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jul 31, 2014, 4:46 PM UTC

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Re: Stellar

#37

Post by loupeabody » Thu, Jul 31, 2014, 4:46 PM UTC

tzaman wrote: post #22

loupeabody wrote: post #16

Agh, the Stellar client requires a Facebook login to get a share of the initial batch. :/

Of course it does, otherwise I'd be able to register an unlimited number of accounts to get as much free Stellars as I wanted.

I wonder how they'll prevent this with the other authorization options which apparently are on their way

Re: Stellar

#38

Post by kylebrown » Thu, Jul 31, 2014, 4:47 PM UTC

joyce wrote: post #17

wyager wrote: post #12

100% pre-mined? No thanks. People complain about the distribution of Bitcoin being imbalanced. This is 100x worse.

Hi, I work at Stellar. The FB auth is the first of several methods to receive stellars so we will add more methods soon. Also, mining obviously has many benefits, but it's still limited to people who are highly technical and/or who have money to spend. We wanted to provide much broader access to digital currency, and so stellars will be given away for free at the click of a button. To encourage transparency, anyone c…

Hi Joyce, would you ask your bf Jed where his MtGox profits are? Its known that Jed sold MtGox to Mark Karpeles, and had access to a privileged account which allowed him to audit the total trading volume (and collect his agreed profit share).

Re: Stellar

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Post by jgmmo » Thu, Jul 31, 2014, 4:47 PM UTC

myleshenderson wrote: post #24

jqueryin wrote: post #18

Feel free to send me 1000 stellar in step 4 of the signup process. Username: corey . Had to be the first to ask :) Thanks in advance!

or to myleshenderson ;)

sending!

mine is: joenorton

Re: Stellar

#40

Post by joyce » Thu, Jul 31, 2014, 4:47 PM UTC

rwinn wrote: post #20

Seems off that they give you 5000 "stellars" to access your Facebook friends list and photos...

I work at Stellar. We wanted a method by which we could fund people once (to prevent someone from spinning up a lot of fake accounts to claim) hence the decision to move forward with Facebook. I know it isn't perfect, but we are doing our best to make the giveaway broadly accessible and not game-able. And we are working on other claim methods so yes, totally hear your concerns.