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Re: Stellar

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Post by 0x0 »

gdb wrote: post #326
borec wrote: post #282

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I absolutely hate Facebook but I have a Facebook account which I never use (mostly used to look up people). I tried to use this account during the Stellar registration process and I am getting "Facebook account is too new to qualify". Can you please help?

Oof, that's annoying. We probably can't tell the age on your account. If you send me your stellar username, I'll send some stellars over.

Aren't fb user IDs assigned as increasing numbers? You could probably just decide on a cut-off user ID and treat all lower numbers as "older".

Re: Stellar

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Post by makomk »

parad0x1 wrote: post #364
pmorici wrote: post #183

This kind of looks like a re-branding of Ripple. Ripple had a lot of image issues after one of the founders quit accusing the company of unethical behavior. Kind of unfortunate that Stripe would through their weight behind Ripple in any way.

The founder that quit is the one who founded Stellar. He is also the one who dumped 9 billion XRP after that argument.

To put this in some perspective, 9 billion XRP is from what I can tell slightly more than the total amount in circulation prior to him dumping all his. It was fairly damaging to Ripple overall and anyone holding XRP lost quite a bit from it.

Re: Stellar

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Post by Zhenya »

gdb wrote: post #275
spacefight wrote: post #273

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.)

same user name as here - don't have facebook

Re: Stellar

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Post by makomk »

vbuterin wrote: post #247
JoshTriplett wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Without the inclusion of mining and the incentives to establish a mining infrastructure, how do you intend to provide safe decentralized verification of transactions?

Ripple consensus.

Which isn't all that decentralized. The only nodes that participate in the consensus are a handful of "trusted" nodes run by - well, in this case I don't think we know yet, but the Stellar foundation gets to pick who can run them. Those nodes get to decide which transactions are accepted, what fees are charged, the money creation policies, etc.

Re: Stellar

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Post by wj »

AndrewDucker wrote: post #203

Ok, so now they're promising me my free stellars "tomorrow". Which is fine in one way - feel free to take your time handing me my free stuff. On the other hand, it doesn't give me much faith they can scale to the mass market...

I'm sure many successful companies had scaling issues well past their first day.

I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.

Re: Stellar

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Post by russjones »

0x0 wrote: post #365

Looks like the emails coming from stellar are delivered from an SMTP origin "mailgun.info" which uses an invalid client certificate; I'm getting errors: SSL_accept error from mail-182-5.mailgun.info[23.253.182.5]: 0 warning: TLS library problem: XXX:error:XXX:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert bad certificate:s3_pkt.c:1258:SSL alert number 42: At least they retry without SSL aftwards, and manage to deliver the…

Hi 0x0, Russell from Mailgun here. Do you have a self signed certificate by any chance? We typically downgrade a connection if we are presented with a self signed certificate. That might be what you are seeing.

If you drop us an email at support [at] mailgun.com with your domain I can take a look at the specific issue we are having delivering over TLS to your domain.

Re: Stellar

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Post by tinco »

gdb wrote: post #355
eridius wrote: post #353

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Thinking about this a bit more, there is one flaw with using it to track debts among a circle of friends, which is that any of those friends could then turn around and trade the USD-stellar I issued them to someone else, who doesn't realize that they shouldn't actually trust me for it. Using a fake currency as a proxy for USD would work here, but of course fake currencies have their own problem which is everyone has…

You can indeed issue fake currencies. The only technical limitation is that currencies are (as it stands) limited to 3 letters. Note that your friend would only be able to trade your fake currency to someone who is willing to trust you, so there's no obvious need to have more technical enforcement preventing trades.

That's not a sane limitation at all. Why would such a limitation be in a protocol designed in 2014?

Re: Stellar

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Post by wj »

binarycrusader wrote: post #241
loupeabody wrote: post #16

Agh, the Stellar client requires a Facebook login to get a share of the initial batch. :/

Indeed; in fact, I just posted about this surprising little catch and was immediately downvoted. I don't have a facebook account so that's an automatic rejection for me :-/ I'll revisit this once they add some other alternatives.

You could offer something of value in exchange.

For example I could offer an ebook coughshameless plugcough:

https://leanpub.com/ideas_are_a_dime_a_dozen

And then have people send me Stellars to user id '007' rather than pay through the website.

The book is free to download but you get the idea.

I also don't have a Facebook account but providing something of value is my strategy.

Re: Stellar

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Post by kolev »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #368
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!

Please send me free money too. 'zoidberg' ^W^W 'pbhj'

Send to nikolay.

Re: Stellar

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Post by jhall »

gdb wrote: post #325
spacefight wrote: post #306

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Thanks. Just out of curiosity, how did you get your Stellars?

The same way as everyone else — OAuth'd with Facebook :).

Unfortunately, I don't have a FB account either. It isn't clear that one is required at signup. Any chance of at least a partial allotment? Username is joninasheville. Thanks.
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