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Seems off that they give you 5000 "stellars" to access your Facebook friends list and photos...

• joyce 12y ago
  I work at Stellar. We wanted a method by which we could fund people once (to prevent someone from spinning up a lot of fake accounts to claim) hence the decision to move forward with Facebook. I know it isn't perfect, but we are doing our best to make the giveaway broadly accessible and not game-able. And we are working on other claim methods so yes, totally hear your concerns.
  • rwinn 12y ago
    Good to hear, I'm looking forward to the other claim methods now after reading your mandate
  • PythonicAlpha 12y ago
    Good to hear, I hope you have some ideas, since else, this "facebookers only" feels like discrimination -- as I explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8115706 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8115706
• kordless 12y ago
  I like that because your friends and photos are a lot like a social fingerprint. If there are no photos and no friends, then no Stellar.