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2018 Stellar roadmap
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#122From few days ago: "PSA: Check your inbox for email from stellar.org, you may be sitting on $ " - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16109292
Thank you for this comment. I checked my email, found out I had 40K, and cashed out half. We live in strange times.
Congrats! Curious why you got 40k though? I thought everyone received 6k.
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#123Kabloom!
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#124Lightning on Stellar? I don't understand why this is desirable.
High volume, low latency, of privacy focused applications.
There's a difference between Stellar's network being able to support high throughput and you wanting to do high-throughput on the network.
Base fee is 1e-5 XLM. If you want to do a million transactions, it's still going to cost you 10 lumens. Why pay 10 XLM when you could pay 1e-5 XLM instead?
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#125I get it that it's a major use case for platforms allowing to issue tokens, but I would love not seeing stellar going too far down the ICO road.
Buying in ICOs still doesn't provide any kind of clear value (beside selling them) and issuing tokens could be used to do way cooler things (like issuing state branded cryptocurrencies, or temporary currencies for big events, etc). It's kind of sad that ethereum is mainly seen nowadays as "the cryptocurrency for ICOs", I wouldn't want to see that for stellar too.
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#126A few years ago, I think I got something like 5K lumens from stripe in some sort of public giveaway stellar promotion thing. I have an account name and a password but cant figure out where those fit anymore. Any idea where that might be?
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
They dropped Bitcoin because transaction fees are really high, and the bitcoin core team has no intention of solving the problem. Maybe in 18 months, when the mythical lightning network gets released they will add it back. But not now.
You do realize that there are literally people buying coffee in meatspace today using lightning? https://twitter.com/alexbosworth/status/955870434230132736
The literal lightning network developers do not recommend that you use lighting right now because you could lose money.
When the actual devs tell me not to use a buggy, in working, piece of software, I am going to listen to them.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
But Amazon's value is not based on it's assets. What is the value of AWS? Is it the physical servers and data-centers? Or is it the knowledge and systems which make it all operational. If you can accept the later is where the real value is, eventually you're going to get to the point where you see the REAL value is in putting these pieces together into a system where a customer can exchange $$ for the value being cre…
These are common misconceptions from speculators. 1. Crypto-assets like Bitcoin/Ethereum/Steller/Ripple, etc, are created simply by typing some numbers into a piece of software. There's no underlying value, it's a number in a database. 2. Stocks have measurable value, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93earnings_ratio 3. Anytime someone sells a Bitcoin or whatevercoin it requires a buyer. Similar to baseball…
How long do you think Amazon's stock price would stay high if no new investors could be found? Don't dig too deep into what separates stocks and government issued fiat currency from pyramid schemes or what you find will trouble you. In many ways, crypto is the safer of the two. A finite amount of bitcoin will be created, can you say the same for the US dollar?
My view is that everything is a pyramid scheme from the first wampum and beads that were traded by humans on down the line to where we are now. The difference is crypto is a chance to get in at the top for once. That chance was missed ages ago by our generation with regard to the US dollar.
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#129A few years ago, I think I got something like 5K lumens from stripe in some sort of public giveaway stellar promotion thing. I have an account name and a password but cant figure out where those fit anymore. Any idea where that might be?
Found in the HN search. It was here: launch.stellar.org
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#130The roadmap is fairly general, not detailed enough, and not serious enough. It makes Stellar look like another startup, not like a company which wants to be the next paypal or replace bitcoin.
I think most of those cryptocurrency companies need to invest in their communication, PR and marketing in general. If they want to attract investors in their coin, they need to have a perfect communication, inspiring confidence. This would always be better than a stupid blogpost full of jokes...
But this is a forum of developers so I am not sure how this tribune for marketing is going to echo here ;)