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Right now, stellars are being handed out at 5K, if you are willing to give them a facebook login. This person is acquiring 100K/stellars an hour, which equals 20 facebook logins/hour.
Why would this be hard to spoof? What's required here? Multiple Facebook accounts and a quick script?
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Right now, stellars are being handed out at 5K, if you are willing to give them a facebook login. This person is acquiring 100K/stellars an hour, which equals 20 facebook logins/hour.
Why would this be hard to spoof? What's required here? Multiple Facebook accounts and a quick script?
Well, proof that someone has a lot of stellars. He could be gaming the Facebook promotion, or buying them, or stealing them, or _____
You can only associate one Facebook profile to a Stellar account.
I'll send you stellar, you send me stellar. Let's complete their final step. Stellar username "oinam".
Whomever this is, and they are likely associated with the project as have an associated email, is gathering funds from the projects premined wallets for distribution. Like ripple, they are handing these out to people interested in the technology. I received part of the initial distribution of ripple by posting on the bitcoin forums. I encourage you to make an account, nothing to lose here; the initial distribution of the currency helps with its decentralization.
Paypal used to pay people to make new accounts too!
Submitters: gratuitous scandal-mongering is not ok on Hacker News.
Edit: the submitted title was "Proof that someone is gaming Stellar. Growing balance at 100K / hour"
This is a new 100% premined cryptocurrency from the makers of ripple. Stripe has invested in this technology; so it already has some fiat backing behind the haul. Whomever this is, and they are likely associated with the project as have an associated email, is gathering funds from the projects premined wallets for distribution. Like ripple, they are handing these out to people interested in the technology. I received…
We've talked with the user, and it sounds like this is not in fact a code bug. We've invited him to post more details in this thread, so hopefully you'll hear more soon.
What is stellar and how is this proof of anything?