The PoA forging algorithm is really interesting, kinda innovative. But I have several questions:

1. Will I have to send ANY amount of Nodes during 24h (as stated in a whitepaper) to forge something? Or is it just a feature adding some points to my Nodeheight?

2. Does the network track and record somehow the IP address of each node besides its Nodeheight? I think there might be a vulnerability:
What stops us from cheating the system by creating several wallets with different addresses on our machines, turning them on and wait until each of them forge something?
It can be easily done by creating several virtual machines each having their own wallet switched on...
So in this case the Nodeheight will be determined for each wallet separately. Am I right?

I LOVE YOU!  

give us a whitepaper and to da Moooon!

Ye, can you clarify plz when it's going to be closed?

Ok, I guess it all started at NEM discussion thread: too many accounts have been hacked recently by visiting phishing site ...bilcointalk.org.. so SillkRoad was a NEM stakeholder?

А можно хотя бы одним глазком подглядеть, что уже хотя бы было написано по-русски? PM me a link, I won't show it to anyone, I promise  

now we have to guess if:
1. the account got hacked;
2. devs want to drop the price by scaring stakeholders  to buy some cheap coins (look at the whale at 50 sat. at bter);
3. he didn't mean anything bad, but really wanted to sell some 'cause he got lots of it and really doesn't care about the price;
4. worst scenario: project is abandoned and there's nothing more to do here...

My guess is n. 2. Will hold my stake anyway  

SilkRoad, можно ссылку на whitepaper на русском? Такое ощущение, что проект заброшен... после запуска девэлоперы наоборот должны как можно больше постить сообщений и рассказывать всем о великолепном будущем, а всё, что пока видно, наводит на прямо противоположные мысли...

I had the same problem before I completely uninstalled the wallet and installed a newer version

I was also PMd a phishing link from Zahlen (seems hacked) with "Important news about NEM Open Alpha" which really looks like leading to bitcointalk though:
1. the site was unsecure (not https://);
2. bilcointalk.org (not bitcointalk.org).

damn scamers

Devs, you said the whitepaper is coming out soon, but I want to know one thing: is it possible right now to forge only through the online wallet? I'm asking because the offline one seems not to sync at all after you enter your passphrase. And does the forging looks the same as in NXT: the more coins you have the faster you earn new ones?  

VK's users are mostly (i guess not less than 80%) from Russian Federation where the cryptocurrency status for now more not legitimate than accepted. Many shops supporting bitcoin had to exclude it, exchanges closed or moved to other countries due to the pressure from the power structures.
So I bet VK won't support it in any way.

Hope so either. On android devices the "share" button also looks the same.. seems like it's google's logo..

You are right at some point, but look at that: a guy (everettworth)  who has already collected 2 million stellars using "fake" accounts.
Here's an article (in russian): http://xakep.ru/news/stellars-mechanical-turk/
In common it's about he was using Amazon Mechanical Turk service to do that by
placing a task and reward for completing it.

The task was quite simple:
1. register on stellar.org;
2. verify your unique account via facebook;
3. get 6000 stellars and send them to his adress.

The reward for completing the task was 1-2$ which means he paid for it approximately from 343$ to 685$. And now 2m stellars value is 4230$, so he made profit  

Check the message above first.
My identity is revealed: facebook account+e-mail+nickname.. well, no problem. Hope just they won't give or trade my personal data somewhere else...
I'm worried more about their distribution model, though I believe in this project's success.

Actually I don't care about identity.. The problem is that devs are hiding something (or even cheating). I will explain why:

1) They claimed to distribute 50% of all coins (that's 50kkk), but for the moment it's just ~1kkk. And it seems they stoped the distribution for some reason ('cause only 5 ppl left in the waiting list). So, how do they suppose to distribute the rest 49kkk? Sell it? If not and they continue the distribution by giving exactly 125 stellars, they will need 392 millions of people! Lol?  

2) 125 stellars is really enough to test the net, but it's not 10$ as it was supposed to be, so I feel cheated..  

It will. My guess is that it's gonna be somewhere in the top 10 coins list with a market cap of 10kk - 30kk$.. with a price for 1 stellar from 0,01$ to 0,03$ in the next 3 months.

Glad I was heared  


The most important thing about it is that it captures the essence of Node.
I like it, very good one

I got 125 stellars for facebook account and e-mail verification... It's worth 0.3$. Soo... I'm rich!! Yeeehaa! Gonna buy Bentley now.

It's not 10$ anymore as it's said here:  https://forum.stellar.org/t/stellar-updates/1026.
Just revealed my identity for FREE. Nice job, devs...

I like this one. It really shows us what Node is.


The goal of a  bank is to credit someone or give interest to those who make deposits there. And it's definitely not what Node platform does.

Devs, I would really suggest you to take a slogan, which can tell us at least something about Node, a slogan which will give us a motivation to use it, some push, it must be simple and easy to remember, the slogan, which will give us emotions. Not just "Best code".. well, I don't know, sounds too arrogant, I think, because you know nothing is perfect... or "NODE - It's DONE"... ok, "it's done", so what's next?

Besides I guess that some slogan makers can cheat, I mean they can go to a voting site and give themselves indefinite votes (to win) every time changing their IP by using Tor, for example, so I woudn't believe those votes... btw, when I was writing this, I tried to do it myself and guess what? It works! So stop it, please, and choose a slogan by yourself, the one YOU like the most  .