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Re: Stellar account with more than one million stellars

#53
Stellar itself seems to be scamming people:

"50% of the total will be distributed to people who sign up for an account."

Once you sign up for an account, you find out that you only receive stellars if you log in with Facebook ... if you want to build trust, you should be more transparent. You also need some way of including users who don't have Facebook (and/or Google) accounts.

Re: Stellar account with more than one million stellars

#54
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SandroG 1 hour ago I'm in touch with Stellar developers, and they confirmed that this individual is indeed gaming the system. Response? Sounds like defamation.

I almost didn't even want to comment on this, but it really isn't a big deal. It looks like a screenshot taken out of context of someone who sent a private message asking someone to look at my account.

Are you gaming it or not?

Re: Stellar account with more than one million stellars

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post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I almost didn't even want to comment on this, but it really isn't a big deal. It looks like a screenshot taken out of context of someone who sent a private message asking someone to look at my account.

Are you gaming it or not?

He's not gaming it.

Re: Stellar account with more than one million stellars

#56
post #53

Stellar itself seems to be scamming people: "50% of the total will be distributed to people who sign up for an account." Once you sign up for an account, you find out that you only receive stellars if you log in with Facebook ... if you want to build trust, you should be more transparent. You also need some way of including users who don't have Facebook (and/or Google) accounts.

Yeah, the plan is definitely to expand beyond Facebook in the medium term. It was just the fastest (though an imperfect) way of getting started and getting stellars into the hands of as many people as possible, as quickly as possible. See also https://www.stellar.org/faq/#_Why_do_I_need_to_authenticate_....

Re: Stellar account with more than one million stellars

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post #55

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He's not gaming it.

Then how did he come across 300+ individuals willing to sell him their entire account so quickly?

Mechanical Turk, I believe: https://twitter.com/thegdb/status/495656012343300097. There's a decent exchange rate: more than a dollar per account.
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