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Re: Stellar

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Post by kandalf »

david_arcos wrote: post #15
joyce wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am one of the folks working at Stellar. Yes, FB isn't a login method that will work for everyone. Today is just day 1; we plan on adding more methods soon. Also, anyone can create an account/wallet without even registering your email. FB auth is only for the giveaway.

Looking forward to it, thanks for your message. Anyways, I just did the "Set up password recovery", and instead of getting 1.000 stellars it forces me again into FB.

That makes sense - to get any stellars from the giveaway (either from the initial sign up or from setting up password recovery), you need to confirm your identity. Otherwise, you'd be able to create a bunch of accounts and just get the 1k from password recovery on each.

Re: Stellar

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Post by GigabyteCoin »

So after giving them access to my facebook account I was told "Your Facebook account is too new to qualify. Stay tuned for new ways to grab stellars."

How unfortunate. And strange seeing as the account is many years old.

Re: Stellar

#263

Post by xmodem »

> Each week, the network will identify the winners. The winners are the 50 top voted for accounts that also received at last 1.5% of the vote. If no account has over 1.5% of the vote, then the top 50 accounts voted for are considered the winners. That week’s new stellars are then distributed pro-rata to the winners.

So does this mean that if one account has 5% of the vote and all remaining accounts have under 1.5%, that account will receive all of the inflation-creates Stellars?

Re: Stellar

#264

Post by richbradshaw »

michaelmcmillan wrote: post #112
richbradshaw wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

just sent you 1000, my username is richb. Again, send 1000 to me, I'll send 1000 back :)

I just did! :) edit: uhm, any plans on paying it back?

The reason I gave you 1000 was so that I got the one time 1000 bonus from Stellar, then you paid it back. The assumption was you had already given 1000, gained the 1000 from Stellar and then got it back again.

Now, someone would give me 1000, I'll pay it back and the chain goes on :)

As it's clear you weren't quite sure how that worked, I'll pay yours back :)

Re: Stellar

#267

Post by gdb »

lnanek2 wrote: post #204

Pretty strange how Stellar is paying people to sign up with Facebook. Facebook is very centralized. These modern currencies are very decentralized. I don't mind myself, but it seems like paying someone to sign up with the enemy...

I hear you. It's a temporary measure: https://www.stellar.org/faq/#_Why_do_I_need_to_authenticate_.... Basically, it was an easy (but imperfect) way to start. We'd certainly love suggestions for other channels to distribute stellars.

Re: Stellar

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Post by AnthonyMouse »

I have to assume that becoming a gateway requires navigating the Byzantine Hellscape of multinational financial and banking regulations. Have they discovered some non-obvious way to avoid this or are the gateways expected to be run primarily by existing financial institutions?

Re: Stellar

#269

Post by spacefight »

pc wrote: post #239
jxf wrote: post #228

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for responding, Patrick. I appreciate you engaging in discussion on this matter. I'm not sure that this actually answers my questions, though. You seem to have more or less restated what I said without specifically addressing anything. For instance, I said, "Jed is also on the Stellar board, too, one of only three members -- and so wields a considerable amount of influence." Then you said that "the board is co…

> For instance, I said, "Jed is also on the Stellar board, too, one of only three members -- and so wields a considerable amount of influence." Then you said that "the board is composed of Jed, Keith Rabois, and me". Sorry, mostly I was just alluding to the fact that most of the board is composed of external members. > In any case, I'm more interested in hearing about how Stellar is or isn't like Ripple. Is it essent…

Why should there inflation be built-in at all? Or prohibited at all?

Re: Stellar

#270

Post by cjslep »

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!

Sent you some, as your username is my name (with an extra 'e')!
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