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Re: Stellar

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Post by Kronopath »

floatrock wrote: post #161
tzaman wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The barrier to creating an unlimited number of facebook accounts is a half step above creating an unlimited number of gmail or hotmail accounts. No, the whole point of connecting with facebook is to focus on the UX of making electronic payments. Who's going to remember their coffee date's wallet is 1BeX1pVAjD94hNs6C5d2dB3TRnLx53dXg3? QR codes are cute, but haven't quite hit the mainstream. It's a lot easier to say "B…

Other discussions here are saying that Stellar scans the Facebook account to check whether it looks like a spam account set up to exploit the giveaway. It rejects accounts that are newly registered, for instance.

Re: Stellar

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Post by corpselord420 »

oafitupa wrote: post #126
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

holy shit dude how many times are you going to make this comment

Re: Stellar

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Post by pc »

jxf wrote: post #175

I 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 o…

Patrick Collison here. I think that Stellar's governance is going to be one of its strong suits. (And something that we thought was lacking in other efforts.)

Stellar is a nonprofit organization and will have public financials and governance documents. It will also hold just 5% of the stellars -- 95% is being given away as quickly as possible. The board is composed of Jed, Keith Rabois, and me. A number of other advisors (http://stellar.org/about) are ensuring that everything is run well and fairly.

Re: Stellar

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Post by PythonicAlpha »

joyce wrote: post #40
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.

Good to hear, I hope you have some ideas, since else, this "facebookers only" feels like discrimination -- as I explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8115706
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