Anyone interested in setting up instant funding for Stellar with ACH, let me know. We've started doing it with some Ripple Gateways and would love to work with Stellar.
tommy at knoxpayments dot com
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#273Pretty 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.
The signup with FB to get 5000 stellars pushed me off. Why should I give a totally new non-profit organisation access to my FB profile? I guess most of the devs here know, what that mean in terms of privacy.
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#274I 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…
Great question - here are the two key items: - Stellar is a nonprofit. No one owns it. The board and advisors represent a diverse group of people in tech, finance, nonprofit and academia to encourage cross-pollination of ideas. The board is also required to expand to 5 members by year-end. - Almost all the stellars will be given away for free (95%) because the goal is to educate and provide access to digital currency…
And Stripe got their USD 3M loan repaid in 2% of the pre-mined stellars, valuating the whole pre-mined lot at USD 150M. How did they arrive at this number?
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#275Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
The signup with FB to get 5000 stellars pushed me off. Why should I give a totally new non-profit organisation access to my FB profile? I guess most of the devs here know, what that mean in terms of privacy.
Yep, for sure. The goal is to get stellars into the hands of as many people as possible, and so moving beyond just FB is definitely a priority. (If you want, I'd be happy to send you a few stellar to play with in the meanwhile.)
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#276Agh, the Stellar client requires a Facebook login to get a share of the initial batch. :/
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.
Why of course? Since when has the existence/linking of an FB account to some other service been the only way to get more free Stellars? And who said, a Stellar has a real value other than being pre-mined bits and bytes?
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#277Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's actually not a bug -- it's because the client never sends the password to the server. (It decrypts your wallet locally.)
It makes sense. It looks like they've just added this message: "If you refresh you will be automatically logged out since it isn't safe to keep your password on disk."
The funny thing to this is, that keeping the password on disk isn't proclaimed safe but sending each user the recovery code over plain text mail withouth encryption is...
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#278Pretty 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...
+1. signed but stopped when i saw connect to fb. no thanks.
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#279Curious how much do people think one Stellar is worth? Or will be in future?
Stripe paid $3,000,000 for 2,000,000,000 stellars FWIW. Edit: They are calling the $3M a loan, so not sure if that is the full payment in stellars or not.
It is, it said on https://www.stellar.org/about/mandate/#Funding that the could use their initial share of 5% to repay the loan.
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#280Earlier quoted context omitted.
No stripe.com URL boost = you'll have to work the hard way.
Whoa. There is absolutely no stripe.com URL boost, or any other kind of URL boost. The stellar.org post set off HN's voting ring detector. Edit: I (perhaps mistakenly) assumed the parent meant that HN itself was boosting certain URLs, as opposed to, say, name-recognition by users. The latter kind of thing is no doubt a factor.
Do many Strip posts die from the voting ring detector?