I don't think anyone mentioned this link yet but it has a lot of interesting bits about the stellar story and why it was forked from ripple: http://observer.co

I don't think anyone mentioned this link yet but it has a lot of interesting bits about the stellar story and why it was forked from ripple: http://observer.com/2015/02/the-race-to-replace-bitcoin/ http://observer.com/2015/02/the-race-to-replace-bitcoin/ I think their distribution of coins might be a problem for them in future (see how the Facebook scheme was totally scammed in the article)