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I can't speak to why patio11 dislikes BTC, but I can speak to what Stellar's trying to do. If it's helpful, there's some decent documentation on what Stellar's

by gdb 12y ago

I can't speak to why patio11 dislikes BTC, but I can speak to what Stellar's trying to do. If it's helpful, there's some decent documentation on what Stellar's trying to do (at a social level) here: https://www.stellar.org/about/mandate/ https://www.stellar.org/about/mandate/. At Stripe, we've had to integrate with a number of backend financial providers. Stellar is trying to be a single system anyone can plug into that gives you global coverage. There's a lot of power to that, and a successful Stellar would help us focus on the core of our business (making payments seamless) rather than maintaining a bunch of integrations. I'm happy to answer any questions about what Stellar's doing/how it works: I'm gdb@stripe.com.

pja 12y ago
Minor question - Stellar wants access to the user's Facebook account as part of the verification process. Why does the Stellar FB app need to see the users' photos as well as their name and friend's list? Are you accessing these to do some kind of bot prevention, because I can't think of any other reason & spelunking through a users' photos seems like a somewhat invasive thing to do.
- gdb 12y ago
  > Are you accessing these to do some kind of bot prevention Yep, exactly.
  - vidarh 12y ago
    And thus you will still need to maintain a ton of integrations to cover all the people with no Facebook accounts, or unwilling to provide that information.
yxhuvud 12y ago
I suppose the big question will be regulation. How much paper trail will Stellar leave? Can it be enough to make regulators happy?