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Re: Stellar

#103
I get what bitcoin is.

Can someone help me with what stellar is, and why it is better than, or a complement to, bitcoin or the traditional system?

Re: Stellar

#104
post #65

Your site isn't ready to be launched when you try to hurd people through Facebook auth, after registering my email, and then it doesn't even work....

By that logic, any site with any bug in it should never been launched. If it broke, report the bug. It's Open Source: https://github.com/stellar .

No. They dropped the ball in my opinion from what should be a really savvy group of people who "get it" when it comes to identity/etc.

Re: Stellar

#105

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!

Would be interested in trying this, but can't obtain any yet due to (intentional) lack of Facebook account. Happy to pay it forward in the inevitable HN article when they launch non-Facebook mechanisms.

Username: JoshTriplett

Re: Stellar

#106

It says my Facebook account is "too new" to get Stellars.... I've had it for over 3 months. What's the reasoning?

Hello, Andrew from Stellar here. We're using Facebook as our identity verification mechanism for our giveaway, and we've added additional spam prevention checks to ensure lots of Facebook accounts aren't created just to claim the giveaway reward. We will be tweaking these checks in the coming days to ensure legitimate users like yourself will be let in. Please check back soon!

Hi, Andrew, please realize you are depending on the desire of people on HN not to be assholes to acquire imaginary currency.

A part of me was sorely tempted, out of annoyance, to simply acquire enough facebook accounts that would bypass your check just to point out how little value it has. I've long since quashed the urge but not everyone will.

Re: Stellar

#107

Can anyone give an insight to why they decided to have the stellars pre mined? Wouldn't that make stellars not valuable...

Yep, just another premined coin to the list, and as it turns out it's a fork of Ripple. Everyone here should read this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8115272

Re: Stellar

#108

Can anyone give an insight to why they decided to have the stellars pre mined? Wouldn't that make stellars not valuable...

We want to give them away as fairly and to as many people as possible. Stellar doesn't require mining and so there's no need to give them away to the people with the most CPU cycles. Anyone can participate regardless of technical ability or income.

Re: Stellar

#109

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!

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