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Re: Stellar

#121

Post by scottmp10 » Thu, Jul 31, 2014, 5:19 PM UTC

This is a Bitcoin-like, distributed, secure payment system WITH a federated protocol for gateways/exchanges. A federated exchange network allows anyone to participate, similar to email servers. But since trust is so much more important in this case, I think that network effects will result in a relatively small set of gateways that anyone will actually interact with.

Re: Stellar

#122

Post by shawndrost » Thu, Jul 31, 2014, 5:19 PM UTC

Bug report: I was unable to get the 5000 initial coins. (The facebook auth failed twice, so I reloaded the page -- and was then unable to find the "free coins" page.)

Re: Stellar

#123

Post by eridius » Thu, Jul 31, 2014, 5:19 PM UTC

Site seems to have broken. It never finished connecting to Facebook, and now when I go to the dashboard the steps are missing entirely. When I go to Settings and try and enable password recovery I get "Server error". In the Console it says it got a 502 from api.stellar.org.

That's in Chrome. In Safari, I don't even get a response to clicking on a settings toggle. Merely loading the dashboard gives me a CORS error.

Re: Stellar

#124

Post by oafitupa » Thu, Jul 31, 2014, 5:19 PM UTC

ankurpatel wrote: post #72

Curious how much do people think one Stellar is worth? Or will be in future?

Nothing, it's just a fork of Ripple.

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

Re: Stellar

#125

Post by toxicFork » Thu, Jul 31, 2014, 5:19 PM UTC

lazyant wrote: post #119

connected with FB and not sure if I verified my email, I get some "server errors" and logouts and can't change my settings

Nothing loads for me anymore, looks like their API could not handle the interest :)

Re: Stellar

#126

Post by oafitupa » Thu, Jul 31, 2014, 5:20 PM UTC

wyager wrote: post #12

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

It's a fork of Ripple, lol.

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

Re: Stellar

#127

Post by opendais » Thu, Jul 31, 2014, 5:20 PM UTC

zerorbit wrote: post #89

samirmenon wrote: post #46

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

So people can't create bots to farm Stellar money. You get free Stellar when signing up.

You can farm Facebook accounts to farm Stellar $$ if you wanted is the flaw in that logic. People already farm Facebook accounts :/

Re: Stellar

#128

Post by DomKM » Thu, Jul 31, 2014, 5:20 PM UTC

shawndrost wrote: post #122

Bug report: I was unable to get the 5000 initial coins. (The facebook auth failed twice, so I reloaded the page -- and was then unable to find the "free coins" page.)

I'm experiencing the same issue.

Re: Stellar

#129

Post by hyperliner » Thu, Jul 31, 2014, 5:21 PM UTC

GregorStocks wrote: post #19

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

Maybe they are doing floating point math in Javascript! :-)

(which would be silly, so there must be another reason! :-)

Re: Stellar

#130

Post by ajgrover » Thu, Jul 31, 2014, 5:21 PM UTC

just FYI - none of the sliders on the settings page work for me. The first one gives me a "Server Error" tooltip and the other 2 just do nothing.

Also, I linked my Facebook and didn't get any indication of whether it worked or not. Now when I log in I have 0 stellars and the welcome panel doesn't show up. did this happen to anyone else?