Stellar

[Weltumschauung]

So I gather that no one here can, in a simple step-by-step manner, explain to a non-dev noob like me how to purchase and store XLM. Correct? Gotta know code? Can't find a single (safe) wallet out there. As someone mentioned earlier, Lobstr keeps your private key online. Any help you can offer would be appreciated.

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[From Above]

So I gather that no one here can, in a simple step-by-step manner, explain to a non-dev noob like me how to purchase and store XLM. Correct? Gotta know code? Can't find a single (safe) wallet out there. As someone mentioned earlier, Lobstr keeps your private key online. Any help you can offer would be appreciated.

just forget about this thing, its utterly irrelevant  anyway

~CfA~

[EvaStellar]

So I gather that no one here can, in a simple step-by-step manner, explain to a non-dev noob like me how to purchase and store XLM. Correct? Gotta know code? Can't find a single (safe) wallet out there. As someone mentioned earlier, Lobstr keeps your private key online. Any help you can offer would be appreciated.

@Weltumschauung here's how you could create an account, buy lumens, and store them w/o handing over your private key:

1) Use the Account Creator tool to generate your public and private key. Save them somewhere safe, like a password vault.

2) Purchase lumens on an exchange and have the exchange send them to your public key.

3) From there, you can use the account viewer to send and receive lumens and check your balance.

The reason that you're seeing a focus on developers precisely because most people need apps/services/tools to interact with the protocol. We're focused on getting people to build localized tools to serve their own communities. We hope this encourages community ownership of the ecosystem, rather than a centralized ecosystem with Stellar.org at the center. Hope that makes sense.

[orco#2]

Worth putting money into this?  Why?

[irfan_pak10]

You can read about It More here: https://www.stellar.org/blog/bitcoin-claim-lumens/?utm_source=Stellar+General+Updates&utm_campaign=8488ae9c56-Bitcoin_giveaway_announcement_general_4_25_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c77c979e43-8488ae9c56-278837969

[Abiky]

@Weltumschauung here's how you could create an account, buy lumens, and store them w/o handing over your private key:

1) Use the Account Creator tool to generate your public and private key. Save them somewhere safe, like a password vault.

2) Purchase lumens on an exchange and have the exchange send them to your public key.

3) From there, you can use the account viewer to send and receive lumens and check your balance.

The reason that you're seeing a focus on developers precisely because most people need apps/services/tools to interact with the protocol. We're focused on getting people to build localized tools to serve their own communities. We hope this encourages community ownership of the ecosystem, rather than a centralized ecosystem with Stellar.org at the center. Hope that makes sense.

Finally some clear instructions on how to setup my first Stellar account and get started. Thanks for sharing this. I have waited a long time for this. Hopefully, I would be able to invest into Stellar and join this exciting journey. The BTC-Lumen giveaway is awesome and definitely a great idea to gain more interest into XLM. I am watching this thread for more updates. Also, I have joined Slack to keep up to date with XLM's current development. 

[EvaStellar]

@Weltumschauung here's how you could create an account, buy lumens, and store them w/o handing over your private key:

1) Use the Account Creator tool to generate your public and private key. Save them somewhere safe, like a password vault.

2) Purchase lumens on an exchange and have the exchange send them to your public key.

3) From there, you can use the account viewer to send and receive lumens and check your balance.

The reason that you're seeing a focus on developers precisely because most people need apps/services/tools to interact with the protocol. We're focused on getting people to build localized tools to serve their own communities. We hope this encourages community ownership of the ecosystem, rather than a centralized ecosystem with Stellar.org at the center. Hope that makes sense.

Finally some clear instructions on how to setup my first Stellar account and get started. Thanks for sharing this. I have waited a long time for this. Hopefully, I would be able to invest into Stellar and join this exciting journey. The BTC-Lumen giveaway is awesome and definitely a great idea to gain more interest into XLM. I am watching this thread for more updates. Also, I have joined Slack to keep up to date with XLM's current development. 

Awesome, see you around! Welcome to the Stellar community

[favdesu]

there's no way I'll ever give a 3rd party my private keys for whatever reason.

[klintay]

there's no way I'll ever give a 3rd party my private keys for whatever reason.

can't believe there is not a standalone wallet for PC, Linus or Mac..WTF!
This online wallet stuff is pureBS

How the f*** do these ladies in Africa use the currency?!? 

[jwinterm]

there's no way I'll ever give a 3rd party my private keys for whatever reason.

can't believe there is not a standalone wallet for PC, Linus or Mac..WTF!
This online wallet stuff is pureBS

How the f*** do these ladies in Africa use the currency?!? 

It's all bs, re: the non-profit aspect to save the world. Their first facebook giveaway is recorded on youtube being scammed by lots of people with thousands of accounts, and now they're trying to force people to link their facebook profiles to their public bitcoin addresses at the moment, probably so they can sell the data to someone. They're registered as a non-profit in Delaware, which basically means that they don't have to do anything special or account for what they're spending their revenue on. So yea, if you want to associate your facebook profile with a btc address, and help perpetuate their 100% premined scamcoin, by all means, sign up for the giveaway.

[baggy23]

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You can read about It More here: https://www.stellar.org/blog/bitcoin-claim-lumens/?utm_source=Stellar+General+Updates&utm_campaign=8488ae9c56-Bitcoin_giveaway_announcement_general_4_25_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c77c979e43-8488ae9c56-278837969

wow, what happened with the giveaway for XRP holders who dumped their XRP on armajeddon?

[God27]

You can read about It More here: https://www.stellar.org/blog/bitcoin-claim-lumens/?utm_source=Stellar+General+Updates&utm_campaign=8488ae9c56-Bitcoin_giveaway_announcement_general_4_25_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c77c979e43-8488ae9c56-278837969

wow, what happened with the giveaway for XRP holders who dumped their XRP on armajeddon?

Now that Jed and fam made their final agreement, Jed/Stellar/Joyce(background dancer) will never bring up ripple or xrp again.

[EvaStellar]

Big announcement in the Stellar ecosystem: Deloitte is using the Stellar network to power cross-border transactions!

Here's a (video) demo of Deloitte's Stellar software here.

 

[John999]

Very interesting:

https://www.stellar.org/blog/roadmap/

[Abiky]

Very interesting:

https://www.stellar.org/blog/roadmap/

Just saw the roadmap for Stellar and I would say that big things are coming for it (if they manage to deliver as promised) As long as a GUI wallet for Stellar is on the list, it will really bring non-tech savvy users into it and thus increase adoption of the crypto currency. There may still be hope for Stellar in the upcoming months or years. Let's wait and see what happens 

[tokeweed]

This project is going nowhere.  And so is Ripple.

[Abiky]

This project is going nowhere.  And so is Ripple.

Yeah. As for Ripple, I have heard that it is centralized in which they control the supply, etc. I don't know if Stellar is the same, but if it does, it will be going nowhere. Many things needs to be implemented into Stellar like a GUI wallet, a mobile wallet (Android/iOS), and perhaps a decentralized exchange for it (like BTS has). Just my opinion 

[Nxtblg]

This project is going nowhere.  And so is Ripple.

Sad to say, you may be right. The trouble with projects like Ripple and Stellar is that they're aimed at partners that we folks have little contact with. Wasn't Stellar's big brag about partnering with Stripe?

[tokeweed]

This project is going nowhere.  And so is Ripple.

Sad to say, you may be right. The trouble with projects like Ripple and Stellar is that they're aimed at partners that we folks have little contact with. Wasn't Stellar's big brag about partnering with Stripe?

Yup.  Stripe funded the Stellar Foundation with 6M USD I think. 

[God27]

This project is going nowhere.  And so is Ripple.

Yea but in 2 years when lumens and xrp increase in price you will say either you were joking or you bought them right before the increase. I'm pretty sure everyone knows your scumbag ways lucky331.