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+1 for the chain idea.
Name is Kirinan. Send me 1k Ill send it back!
Sent! My name: WillSewell
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Re: Stellar
#172I posted this on the support forum as well, but myself and at least one other user have had this problem: I created an account, but it timed out and never took me to the next page, however I received the two confirmation emails (including the pw recovery code). When I try to log in though, I get invalid username or password, and the password recovery code is useless. So it looks like it's possible to create an account which is completely inaccessible.
EDIT: Looks like more folks are reporting the same issue.
Re: Stellar
#173David Mazières wrote one of my favorite papers ever, "Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List" http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/papers/ July 2005
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same message and my account is two and a half years old. I have no friends on the account, so maybe "too new" really means "not enough friends". Edit: Because this is generating some discussion, I'll clarify that it is not actually my main account which is why I have no friends or photos, but I don't like giving third parties access to my private main account information. The spam detection seems to have worked well…
Hello, we check various properties of your Facebook account to determine that this was not a spam account created simply to exploit the giveaway. This is our first day out, and we apologize that legitimate users like yourself aren't able to receive the giveaway. Please check back in the coming days as we continue to improve our spam detection algorithms.
And what is with people, that don't have a Facebook account (yet)?
I guess, anybody that creates a new Facebook account now, because he wants to also get the Stellars will fall into the spam category.
tl;dr: Isn't it a legitimate interest, to get something that others get? Or is it just a giveaway for Facebook users? When so, would you please say so in the first place (, that your system is only for them). It does not foster my trust in this new system, when I am locked out, just because I am not inside some "special club" (I don't remember, that Facebook membership is now essential to interact in the internet -- .... I am at the verge to feel discriminated.).
I find it good, to have an alternate payment method to get out of the trap of traditional payment systems, that are dominated by a few big corporations .... and then, what happens, I have to bow to one even bigger monopolist. --> Does not foster my trust into a system that claims to be free and open.
Re: Stellar
#175I was able to successfully sign up and get 5,000 STR, so that worked for me at least. But then I started looking a little deeper into the blog post.
> Development is led by Jed McCaleb and Dr. David Mazieres in collaboration with a small team of others. (The technology is based on the open-source Ripple project, originally created by Jed a few years ago.)
So, is Stellar fundamentally the same thing as and/or a fork of Ripple? They've hired the same guy who started Ripple (Jed McCaleb), and as I recall there were a lot of concerns around that, as noted in a WSJ article [0] and other places. Jed is also on the Stellar board, too, one of only three members -- and so wields a considerable amount of influence.
If so, then doesn't it have all the same problems and concerns as Ripple? Centralized authority holding a large chunk of initial funds, questionable governance decisions, etc., just to name a few of the political problems, not just the technical ones.
I'd love to see the "IP layer for currency" described by Stripe succeed, but I'm not sure that this implementation of it represents a good idea. And I'm also concerned about whether Jed, the cofounder of both MtGox and Ripple, has the best interests of Stellar at heart.
[0] http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/05/22/ripple-alternative...
Re: Stellar
#176David Mazières wrote one of my favorite papers ever, "Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List" http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/papers/ July 2005
http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/papers/remove.pdf Figure 1 is particularly helpful.
Every time I see figure 1 I completely lose it.
Re: Stellar
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#179It 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!
Welp, I guess I won't be using Stellar
Re: Stellar
#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
first to send me 1000 gets 2000 back ;) username: fela
received and transferred 2000 back :) edit: didn't get the 1000 bonus yet though, does that only work if I send exactly 1000? edit 2: I got the bonus now. 34 times. I've 39000 STR total now :O
I'll take some of that, please! 'thrashr888'