One of the largest internet companies in China is now using Stellar: https://www.stellar.org/blog/lefinance/

stellarinflationpool.com You should probably announce it here also: https://galactictalk.org

Nobitcoin: I think you are looking for this link: https://launch.stellar.org/#/login  you need to upgrade. And save your secret key. Stellar is like bitcoin. There aren't accounts really.

most of the unclaimed lumens are going toward people building things: https://www.stellar.org/blog/build-challenge/


cryptoadoption: Oh mean the distribution is centralized. Yeah this is true. but it is temporary and everything else, the network and the code and the ecosystem is decentralized.

cryptoadoption: what part of Stellar do you think is not decentralized?

M28MmickT: If I don't think that XRP is going to be worth much long term why do you think I should be obligated to hold on to it? I didn't start selling right when I left ripple (when I was the most angry) I gave them a year to see if things would look better but to me it still seemed like the company wouldn't last long term so it was time to sell. Of course it is impossible for me to be totally objective but I was trying to make a rational choice. But I really don't think it was emotionally driven decision which is what I think you are implying when you say it was childish.

We have done several auctions of lumens which is similar to a crowdsale. SDF is currently selling some of its lumens on kraken right now to pay for our operations. So anyone can go be an early adopter, get lumens and help SDF.

>And for the end, don't look for someone to build apps on your platform
This isn't our platform. This is owned by the world. It will be built by you guys. It is all open source and an open protocol much like bitcoin. If Stellar is going to work other people need to get involved. I think there are a lot of people out there that are dissatisfied with how money and payments work and Stellar can greatly improve things and democratize/decentralize these concentrations of power. This technology can be very liberating and empowering but it does take a community of people to contribute to it.

etoque: I have asked poloniex to correct the ticker. It might help if other people ask them as well.  There is this forum: https://galactictalk.org/  or our http://slack.stellar.org

X-ray and klintay: this is why we also have this program for most of the unclaimed lumens: https://www.stellar.org/blog/build-challenge/
If you build a project on stellar you can get *a lot* of lumens

Storm_Guardian_N7:  Yeah I agree it would be great if it were easier. We are definitely open to suggestions about how to make it simpler.

HarryKPeters: But it isn't all going to SDF. Most of it is ging to people building things on Stellar: https://www.stellar.org/blog/build-challenge/

m3110w:  List of wallets: https://galactictalk.org/d/6-stellar-wallets-overview

No I understand. Having to use facebook isn't ideal at all.

If you had bitcoins on either poloniex, btc38 or kraken then they will handle the claiming the lumens for you.

 Voight-Kampff: What wallet are you using? you can also get help in our slack.stellar.org

jwinterm: You mean to other companies? Absolutely not. We aren't saving the data.

favdesu: yeah just like bitcoin I guess.

It is here now: https://www.stellar.org/lumens/bitcoin-lumen-program/

It is here now: https://www.stellar.org/lumens/bitcoin-lumen-program/

 m3110w: Yeah you can claim for as many BTC addresses you have.

 dang thi bich thuy: We explain here: https://www.stellar.org/blog/bitcoin-claim-lumens/ 
This 3B is the first round of the giveaway. We will do other rounds after this.

No that is the picture ripple fans like to paint but it just isn't true. I didn't and still don't think ripple will be viable long term so of course I wanted to sell my XRP.  The price of XRP doesn't really effect ripple the company since they raised money from VCs.

Soul_eater_123: Sorry I didn't mean to come off as being coy. My point is that the price is just supply and demand. It isn't what people pay for the good in the first place that matters.
Clearly giving away a bunch of lumens increases the supply but the hope is that it also increases awareness and the number of people interested in the project which will increase demand.

As far as mtgox, I sold it to mark who proceeded to screw it up. I definitely regret not finding someone more competent to take it over.
As far as ripple, I announced my intention to sell *before* I sold. This seemed like the most honorable thing to do. I could have sold without telling anyone and made way more money. Not sure what people would have preferred I did?

> The timing is the main problem it is now 2 years since launch.
Yeah ideally we would have been giving out the lumens at a steady rate since we launched. We started doing that when we launched 2 years ago, but unfortunately the ripple codebase wasn't up to handling the scale so we had to pause the giveaway while we rewrote everything. Now that that is done and the code is solid we can start the giveaway again.

> That's all great but giving them away for free results in a price of $0
That isn't really how economics works. Even though some people get them for free there is still a limited supply.
Imagine no one had cars in the world and you gave away 1,000 free cars. Do you think they would be worthless? No the people that got the cars could sell them even though they got them for free.

 Jdj1727: "So, just so I understand...On July 4th, 3 billion more STR/XLM will be hitting BTC wallets/exchanges?"
No July 5th is when we are starting the lumen giveaway to bitcoin holders. The lumens go out as people claim them. We will see how many people claim them and how long it takes but it will be at the very least over the course of weeks.

electronicash: "is there really something laid for STR holders?"
Yeah tons of things going on. Check out blog for the latest updates: https://www.stellar.org/blog/


M28MmickT: Stellar has no mining so it isn't really a premine. The currency all exists when the network starts. Details about how the lumens will be distributed are here: https://www.stellar.org/about/mandate/  
> "You should give away at least 80% of your coins if you want this project to have real success."
we are giving away 95% of the lumens so I agree with you.


btctube: "scares me to death. anyone could guess who owns that account?"
What account?