Why Stellar is giving away lumens to bitcoin holders

[briangale]

With Stellar.org's upcoming giveaway of lumens to bitcoin holders, there have been many questions from the cryptocurrency community pertaining to why we have decided to give away lumens, especially as it relates to distribution to bitcoin holders. The post below was written before the first distribution we did last year, but given that we are less than two-weeks away from the next distribution, I thought the community here might find this interesting.

https://www.stellar.org/blog/why-btc-giveaway/

For details related to the bitcoin lumen distribution go here:
https://www.stellar.org/blog/bitcoin-claim-lumens-2/

[Zegra]

Anyone knows when exchanges will credit the Lumens? Particularly Kraken. I heard those who verified their own wallets with KYC/AML through Facebook got their lumens already for weeks...

[X-ray]

Anyone knows when exchanges will credit the Lumens? Particularly Kraken. I heard those who verified their own wallets with KYC/AML through Facebook got their lumens already for weeks...

Kraken is the only one but i've read the polo and another exchange will credit the lumens airdrop but i don't know about the result of that things in this time.  But i think most of the exchange will not try to credit the stellar airdrop.

[mmo4me.2016]

They think that people who have more BTCs will exchange more, But in reality, many BTCs have a lot of money then Stellar does not affect. In general, such divisions may not be justified

[europesss]

With Stellar.org's upcoming giveaway of lumens to bitcoin holders, there have been many questions from the cryptocurrency community pertaining to why we have decided to give away lumens, especially as it relates to distribution to bitcoin holders. The post below was written before the first distribution we did last year, but given that we are less than two-weeks away from the next distribution, I thought the community here might find this interesting.

https://www.stellar.org/blog/why-btc-giveaway/

For details related to the bitcoin lumen distribution go here:
https://www.stellar.org/blog/bitcoin-claim-lumens-2/

They want to get some supports from BTC holders.

[rogueknight]

As a form of exposure. If you think about the all the people that own bitcoin, it is a much bigger number than the people that even look into alt coins. And of those, how many even know of stellar? It's a neat way to get a broad audience of bitcoin holders to use their platform.

[xl86]

because the team is too rick