2018 Stellar roadmap

Post by tim333 » Fri, Jan 26, 2018, 2:14 PM UTC

adbachman wrote: post #84

BrazeBeefNoodle wrote: post #72

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>> For every big winner, there's some family who had a dad who mortgaged their house and lost it all. That's silly. Just look at the growth in the total crypto market cap over the last few years (or even over the last six months) and it's clear that this can't be true. The vast majority of people who have been involved are way ahead.

> The vast majority of people who have been involved are way ahead. Strong disagree :( Cryptocurrency investment is speculation in a zero-sum game. Every dollar someone pulls out of the system in profit required someone else to put a dollar in. All those people who sold bitcoin at $19k could do so because there were buyers. Every single one of those buyers lost. Cryptocurrencies are not shares in a corporation or bon…

Post by wyldfire » Fri, Jan 26, 2018, 2:55 PM UTC

keymone wrote: post #135

wyldfire wrote: post #55

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> no intention of solving the problem. I was starting to grow pretty concerned but clearly segwit and LN have made enough progress that fees have dropped to ~10sat/byte. [1] That is dirt cheap. [1] https://bitcoinfees.earn.com

i don't think LN has had a chance to make any impact yet and segwit's adoption could be better though it does help. main reason for the drop imo is the end of the hype cycle: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=bitcoin Edit: typo

Post by mparr4 » Fri, Jan 26, 2018, 3:13 PM UTC

semi-extrinsic wrote: post #134

mparr4 wrote: post #133

I recently started looking into Lumens and can't figure out the value proposition of the token. AFAIK the stellar network purports to be a place where you can do peer to peer exchanges of currencies, with Lumens being one of them, but on the stellar website they say things like: > Why does the Stellar network need a native asset? > The Stellar network offers all of the innovative features of a shared public ledger on…

Formatted so it's readable on mobile: > Why does the Stellar network need a native asset? > The Stellar network offers all of the innovative features of a shared public ledger on a distributed database—often referred to as blockchain technology. The Stellar network’s built-in currency, the lumen, serves two purposes: > First, lumens play a small anti-spam role. > Each transaction has a minor fee—0.00001 lumens—associ…

Post by koheripbal » Fri, Jan 26, 2018, 4:37 PM UTC

wildbunny wrote: post #140

Isn't stellar's consensus still the 'consensus' of one node owned by the company due to the fact that the design is totally broken?

Post by tim333 » Fri, Jan 26, 2018, 6:04 PM UTC

koheripbal wrote: post #144

tim333 wrote: post #136

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There's a blog entry from them with a few points https://www.stellar.org/blog/Q1-2018-stellar-and-state-of-cr... I think: Transaction charges Transaction time Solid and reliable unlike IOTA Good developer ecosystem Good platform for ICOs "Stellar supports over 1,000 transactions per second compared to Ethereum’s 7 token transaction per second."

If it supports 1000tps on a blockchain, then there must be some centralization nodes, in which case, it is just another Dash equivalent. Centralization defeats the purpose of crypto in my opinion.