[ANN][XLM] Stellar - Decentralized trading platform

[jed]

An article about the integration of Stellar with Barclays and Deloitte: http://www.americanbanker.com/news/bank-technology/how-barclays-aims-to-bring-a-billion-unbanked-into-the-fold-1081591-1.html

[Geenstijl]

Wow Jed, is this really you? Really cool to see you reacting on this forum.

You guys are booking some amazing results (without spreading too much hype). The infrastructure is rock solid and your strategy is fantastic.

May I ask what is the role of the advisory board? How often do you speak with them?

[jed]

Yep really me.

Yeah we are really excited to be out of the building stage. Stellar is in really good shape technically now and it is time to get people to start using it.

The advisory board is there to bounce ideas off of, get feedback on strategy, help with connections, and basically give advice   How often we talk to each member really varies depending on what we are up to and what decisions we are trying to make. For example when we were thinking of becoming an apache project we spoke a lot to Greg Stein since he obviously knows the Apache Foundation really well, etc.

[Geenstijl]

Thanks for the reply. The advisory board is really impressive. I never seen this thread before. I will be checking it more often. Keep up the good work.

[HarryKPeters]

An article about the integration of Stellar with Barclays and Deloitte: http://www.americanbanker.com/news/bank-technology/how-barclays-aims-to-bring-a-billion-unbanked-into-the-fold-1081591-1.html

Stellar is doing great, but the fact to the matter is their is lacking some real marketing people there.

The giveaway for example.

1)

Seems like you've designed it so that stellar.org gets the bulk of the coins.

The calculation should be a percent of BTC that are used to claim Lumens is what should be used, not the percentage of the total BTC population. I expect less than 10% of BTC will be used to claim Lumen which means stellar.org will get 90% of the 3 billion.

2) Why give Lumens to holders. Use the community to promote it. Giving it away like this will only create more selling on the exchanges.
To let people earn stellar by making/writing about the concept, or cases (Nigeria) will make them understand the project and it's scope.

With that they are likely to hold their coins AND at the same time Stellar will get proper attention.

[hornetsnest]

Stellar market is manipulated by a handful of insiders with large bags

[chichidori]

I Remember when this coin was in face two giveaway so many members wait for their stellars, but only some have receive it, imagine that billion of stellars, an official forum that went under because of lack of funding.

[Emerger]

I am disappointed that after all this time the first giveaway to BTC holders is only for facebook users or (even worse) those silly enough to send all their BTC to an exchange. I understood the Stellar giveaways were supposed to honor Bitcoin's important role in the technology, so the way the lumen giveaway is being run seems completely contra to the decentralized notion of blockchains. I'm sure the Stellar team can find a better way.

[Crypto*Digger]

Is the decentralized exchange functioning?

[jed]

HarrKPeters: We are doing something like you suggest now: 2B+ lumens will be awarded to projects built on Stellar more info here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1529992.new#new
and here: https://www.stellar.org/blog/build-challenge/

Emerger: We are limited on how we can do it by US regulations. We have to ensure that we are not giving lumens to people on the US sanctions list. So we need some way of verifying who they are.

 Crypto*Digger:  yes the distributed exchange is working but it depends on 3rd parties to become what we call anchors to put other currencies into the network.

[God27]

So this time next week, btc and xrp holders with eligible snapshot criteria, Facebook auth and etc can claim their lumens?

[jed]

Well just btc holders. We are doing the xrp one in the next round.

[Wilhelmer]

Gosh, with so much Lumens being airdropped in every single way possible. Wouldn't that just drive the price of it way down? As if it's not low enough already.

[jed]

Hard to say.  Awarding the lumens to people building things built on stellar will hopefully cause more things to be built on stellar which could make the whole system more valuable.

[egghead123]

Gosh, with so much Lumens being airdropped in every single way possible. Wouldn't that just drive the price of it way down? As if it's not low enough already.

It was at 34 sats a while back.

[Geenstijl]

Stellar is a coin that does not seem to care about all the greedy investors. They put their efforts in delivering fundamentals. These fundamentals are as good as ETH or XRP. That's why I bought.

And please give away more Lumens, if it helps to increase the adoption.

[egghead123]

Stellar is a coin that does not seem to care about all the greedy investors. They put their efforts in delivering fundamentals. These fundamentals are as good as ETH or XRP. That's why I bought.

And please give away more Lumens, if it helps to increase the adoption.

And without investors how does it raise development funds exactly?Without traders how does it have liquidity?etc etc...

[Wilhelmer]

Gosh, with so much Lumens being airdropped in every single way possible. Wouldn't that just drive the price of it way down? As if it's not low enough already.

It was at 34 sats a while back.

Hope we don't revisit that. 

[monanisa]

I miss this coin 

[jed]

Someone created a forum for Stellar: https://galactictalk.org/