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What are your thoughts on Stellar?

I decided against Ripple due to 80% being held by Ripple Labs but it sounds like Stellar Foundation holds a lot more than that, albeit with a promise to distribute them.

I believe Stellar did away with the centralization that Ripple had implemented which is good.

Stripe invested in Stellar which I think is a pretty big deal.

Why does most of Stellar's volume come from bx.in.th?

Justcoin use to have a big volume but it was hacked, lost a load of money and closed down. They promised most of their funds were held in cold storage but it turned out to be a lie and they were stolen. Since then justcoin's customers seem to have moved to bx.in.th.

By looking at the chart, you will see that stellar is trending higher while bitcoin is getting lower each day. Stellar has broken away from every other coin because it is unique. If it's going up while everything else is going down, it will only go up faster if everything else goes up..

has there been any major upgrade from stellar after the launch?
 I see the wallet can be used for other currencies, but still its lacking any big upgrades.

http://www.coindesk.com/stellars-joyce-kim-talks-launch-fork-future/

Great article, I think once something really starts to use Stellar as a foundation, it will begin to pickup some more use cases and gain popularity. I like both Stellar and Ripple, but I think Stellar has more potential in the long run... this is going to be one of those VHS vs. BetaMax things.

stellar is a good innovation and i hope it will see a good growth in 2015, it is one of the only few coins that gained in 2014, while the year was worst year for cryptocurrency

It's hard not to gain if you start from zero, since it was launched in august 2014. And as for innovation, it's basically a ripple-fork with inflation added

at this time stellar may looked centralization, but when it finish distribute, it will become deflationary and fully distribute
the foundation must choose the correct persons to hold stellar and distribute it


also you can have free stellar at the forum, there are so many programs to look at, start from giveway and posting rewards

here take a look