Description: r/Stellar: Stellar is a decentralized protocol that enables you to send money to anyone in the world, for fractions of a penny, instantly, and in any currency. /r/Stellar is for news, announcements and discussion related to Stellar. Please focus on community-oriented content, such as news and discussions, instead of individual-oriented content, such as questions and help. Follow the [Stellar Community Guidelines](https://www.stellar.org/community-guidelines/) .

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Posted by
u/StellarZac
SDF 6 months ago
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## Welcome to /r/Stellar - Read this to GET STARTED

# WELCOME

Hi there!

I'd like to welcome both new and seasoned users to r/Stellar! The community has grown exponentially over the past 6 months and with this growth has come a great collection of fresh ideas to the ecosystem. It's important to remember to protect this community's philosophy of Open-Source Citizenship by respecting the rules (see sidebar and scroll to the bottom of this post) and respecting each other. This community's rules & guidelines are in place to foster collaboration, quality conversation, and user safety.

Don't forget to check out our community page for community events, forums, and Stellar Build Challenge information. Subscribe to the monthly newsletter to stay up-to-date on Stellar. Thanks for being a part of the /r/Stellar community!

# GETTING STARTED

#### What Is Stellar?

Stellar is an open-source, distributed payments infrastructure. It is a leapfrog technology that connects people, payment systems, and banks with a focus on the developing world. It lets you facilitate multi-currency and asset transactions quickly, reliably, and for a fraction of a penny by using a crypto-asset called Lumens (XLM) as a bridge.

- The Stellar Consensus Protocol | Talks At Google (video)
- The Stellar Foundation Mandate & Governance
- Jed McCaleb on Bitcoin & Stellar (video)
- How The Stellar Network Operates (pdf)
- How Money Moves On Stellar (video)
- Lumens (XLM) FAQ

#### Where Do I Start?

A good place to start is with a Stellar Wallet:

- Stellar Lumen Wallet Options

The only official Stellar channels are:

https://stellar.org

https://twitter.com/stellarorg

https://www.facebook.com/stellarfoundation

### Now What?

Get lumens, build applications, create tutorials, and dive into Stellar:

- Beginner’s Guide To The Stellar Network (for Developers)
- Developer Support via StackExchange
- Read The Documentation
- Raise Funds & ICO On Stellar
- Participate In The Stellar Build Challenge (Win Lumens)
- Check Out Stellar Meetups In Your Area
- Guide to Stellar Smart Contracts
- How To Tip XLM on r/Stellar

### Safety Policy

Stellar Development Foundation never asks your Secret Key. The only official website is (https://stellar.org). Stellar will NEVER ask you to deposit funds to any wallet address. If anyone asks your Secret Key to claim a giveaway then it's a scam. Stellar Development Foundation never contacts you directly on media platforms to offer a giveaway, always report those messages to the media platforms so they can remove them to protect our community. Read Stellar's Safety Guide for more on how to protect yourself from scams.

### Disclaimer

Stellar does not endorse any third party organizations that are named in this and/or any other communication(s). Please conduct due diligence and interact with these organizations at your own discretion.

# RULES

Below is a brief summary of the rules that Reddit users on r/Stellar must follow to participate. These can be used as reasons to remove posts/comments and ban users.

### Golden Rule

You are expected to treat everyone with a certain level of respect and refrain from inappropriate behavior. Examples of inappropriate behavior include:

- Personal insults
- Threats of any kind or attempts to organize attacks
- Slurs of any kind
- Posting people’s private information
- Neurotic and negative behavior
- Manipulation, Spamming, Referrals, and Scamming

If you can't follow the community rules, you will not be allowed to post here.

*For a full list of r/Stellar's rules, please see the Rules list in the sidebar or rules page

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u/AutoModerator
6 hours ago
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## The Daily Stellar Chat Posts - Wednesday November 07, 2018

Welcome to The Daily Stellar Chat Posts! Please share the latest Stellar product news & announcement speculations in this thread.

# Must Read

r/Stellar Rules - https://www.reddit.com/r/Stellar/wiki/rules

Getting Started - https://redd.it/8h0grg

Stellar Syllabus - https://novicedock.com/learn/cryptocurrency/stellar

My Lumen FAQ - https://redd.it/7o27wc

Inflation FAQ - https://redd.it/8b6snn

# Scam Alert

Protect yourself against scams and media impersonators!! The official links are:

- https://stellar.org
- https://twitter.com/stellarorg
- https://www.facebook.com/stellarfoundation

Stellar Development Foundation will NEVER ask your Secret Key unless in the official website. Stellar Development Foundation will NEVER contact you in media platforms to offer a giveaway, always report those messages so they can be removed to protect our community.

# Daily Chat Rules

- Be respectful. No personal attacks.
- Refrain from baseless speculation, shilling, concern trolling, and referral spamming. Repetitive spam about price and price speculation is not permitted.
- Debate is encouraged, fighting is not. Fighting includes name calling, assumptions of intent, and character assassination.
- If you suspect a problem, please just use the report button. Announcing reports may result in a ban.

# Disclaimer

Stellar does not endorse any third party organizations that are named in this and/or any other communication(s). Please conduct due diligence and interact with these organizations at your discretion.

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Posted by
u/Jhat3k1
8 hours ago

## Here is the link to claim your $25 in XLM from Blockchain.com!

blockchain.com/getcry...
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Posted by
u/zerocrypted
17 hours ago

## Stellar Lumens Will be Added to Blockchain.com & Announces Massive Giveaway

zerocrypted.com/daily-...
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u/PayPalOfficial
1 month ago from PayPal.com/LetsGrow
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## TRUST the payments partner that processes 10M payments a day. Want to spend less time worrying and more time selling (or on Reddit)? PayPal has your back.

PayPal.com/LetsGrow Learn More
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Posted by
u/CoinRivet
22 hours ago

## Blockchain.com Giving Away $125 million worth of Stellar. What are the communities thoughts?

coinrivet.com/is-the...
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Posted by
u/pale_blue_dots
8 hours ago

## Ad Council pioneers blockchain for programmatic with Ternio

campaignlive.com/articl...
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Posted by
u/Bitcashoin
15 hours ago

## Web Summit 2018 Video (Stellar Announcement Moments)

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Posted by
u/Scatterbrain47
3 hours ago

## Coinbase CTO: Crypto is Entering the Tech Mainstream

cryptonewz.online/enteri...
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Posted by
u/RealisticShip
12 hours ago

## Blockchain.com Wallet Adds Stellar, Announces $125 Mln XLM Airdrop to ‘Drive Adoption’

cryptoupdate.ca/blockc...
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Posted by
u/Scatterbrain47
2 hours ago

## Using Crypto to Take out a Real Mortgage on Virtual Land

cryptonewz.online/crypto...
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Posted by
u/cryptoguy23
21 hours ago

## One Tweet = 475,000 XLM

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Posted by
u/revolution114
18 hours ago

## Stellar and Blockchain.com in Fortune article

http://fortune.com/2018/11/06/blockchain-stellar/

Always nice to see Stellar get some mainstream love

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Posted by
u/VladimirVZ
22 hours ago

## Announcing SDF's largest lumen distribution to date!

> "Millions of new users to be onboarded to Stellar with leading digital asset wallet. This represents a major step towards increased access and global network participation."

Reed on official blog Bringing Lumens to Millions

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Posted by
u/lilynut
15 hours ago

## NYC Stellar Meetup #1 (rebooted) with Stellar, inter/stellar and LendLedger - Thursday, November 29, 2018 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

meetup.com/New-Yo...
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Posted by
u/EffectiveWait
18 hours ago

## Blockchain.com Announces the Biggest Stellar Airdrop worth $125 Million

blockmanity.com/news/b...
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u/Triplebyte_official
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## "I think a lot of people still don't realize what a great time investment [Triplebyte] is. I woke up early and did their 2-hour interview before going to work one day. Within a week I'd been offered 30+ on-site interviews at well-funded Bay Area startups, as well as a couple of bigger companies."

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Posted by
u/pezLyfe
13 hours ago

## Marco Santori spoke about the blockchain.com's airdrop program on "Unchained" this morning

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/forbes-podcast-network/unchained-big-ideas-from-the-worlds-of-blockchain-and-fintech

Discussion about the airdrop program starts at about 45:00, interesting to hear his perspective on their airdrop program

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Posted by
u/pedroauad
1 day ago

## Why IBM and Stellar are one of Crytpo's "Best Partnerships".

investinblockchain.com/top-cr...
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Posted by
u/Vincent_Lionheart
18 hours ago

## Crypto Wallet Firm Blockchain to Airdrop $125 Million in Stellar

coindesk.com/wallet...
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Posted by
u/Bitcashoin
22 hours ago

## Blockchain Announces $125 Million 'Airdrop' of Stellar Lumens

fortune.com/2018/1...
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Posted by
u/exgodfather
20 hours ago

## XLM Airdrop : What does that mean for the Price? – Nouvive: Home of Crypto Enthusiasts, Investors & Traders

nouvive.com/2018/1...
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Posted by
u/talhaidris7
1 day ago

## San Francisco Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Compliance Meetup w/ Elastos, Stellar, 0X, Circle, HBUS & Stanford. 11/15/18.

meetup.com/elasto...
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Posted by
u/SonalChuri
11 hours ago

## Can someone explain the relationship between Stellar & KIN ?

I had read about it a while ago & cannot find the article. TIA !!

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Posted by
u/AutoModerator
1 day ago

## The Daily Stellar Chat Posts - Tuesday November 06, 2018

Welcome to The Daily Stellar Chat Posts! Please share the latest Stellar product news & announcement speculations in this thread.

# Must Read

r/Stellar Rules - https://www.reddit.com/r/Stellar/wiki/rules

Getting Started - https://redd.it/8h0grg

Stellar Syllabus - https://novicedock.com/learn/cryptocurrency/stellar

My Lumen FAQ - https://redd.it/7o27wc

Inflation FAQ - https://redd.it/8b6snn

# Scam Alert

Protect yourself against scams and media impersonators!! The official links are:

- https://stellar.org
- https://twitter.com/stellarorg
- https://www.facebook.com/stellarfoundation

Stellar Development Foundation will NEVER ask your Secret Key unless in the official website. Stellar Development Foundation will NEVER contact you in media platforms to offer a giveaway, always report those messages so they can be removed to protect our community.

# Daily Chat Rules

- Be respectful. No personal attacks.
- Refrain from baseless speculation, shilling, concern trolling, and referral spamming. Repetitive spam about price and price speculation is not permitted.
- Debate is encouraged, fighting is not. Fighting includes name calling, assumptions of intent, and character assassination.
- If you suspect a problem, please just use the report button. Announcing reports may result in a ban.

# Disclaimer

Stellar does not endorse any third party organizations that are named in this and/or any other communication(s). Please conduct due diligence and interact with these organizations at your discretion.

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Posted by
u/andeebe
1 day ago

## Why and how we use the Stellar blockchain at our tech startup

While many blockchain projects can feel like a solution looking for a problem (cats-stuck-up-trees on the blockchain, anyone?), we’ve rooted Tap around the fundamental principles of the technology and guess what? It just works.

At Tap we've successfully used the Stellar blockchain, and public ledger, to improve transparency and trust when it comes to data requests, i.e. the movement of personal data between organisations and individuals.

You can read more about what Tap is in our blog post —resetting the balance. In part two we’ll focus more about the utility token, or Tap token, that is the fuel within our product ecosystem.

​

# How we use the Stellar blockchain to build trust and transparency

Stellar is an open-source, decentralised protocol. It provides a public ledger that allows transactions between two or more parties.

Stellar offers a scalable and low cost blockchain solution which is vitally important in such a large data economy.

How does Stellar work for Tap? When a user opens the Tap app on their phone users have the ability to easily send a data request to an organisation of their choosing. This request is called a subject access request, or SAR. We’ve written about how the app works in a previous post.

When a user sends a data request to an organisation, a record of this transaction (but not any personal data!) is recorded on the Stellar public ledger (or digital book as we referred to it as). It also works the other way round; when an organisation sends a data response back to the customer’s personal data-locker, a record of this transaction (and again, no personal data!) is logged on the Stellar public ledger.

As we’ve followed the practice of ‘Privacy by Design’, it was important that no data was put onto a blockchain for risk of security and personal privacy for both the individuals and organisations. As such, no personal data is put on the blockchain in any way, shape or form.

We’ve drafted up a simple diagram that shows how this works…

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How the Stellar blockchain interacts with Tap

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# Now, go see for yourself!

What is really cool is that you can go and see the audit trail or transactions of data requests sent between individuals and organisations by examining the Stellar blockchain.

You can do this on any Stellar blockchain explorer. In this instance I’ve linked to one called Stellar Scan. There are a few of these explorers around on the web for you to look at transactions. These explorers provide a view of the public ledger for anyone to visit and see all transactions that takes place on the Stellar blockchain.

For example; I sent a request to an organisation (Costa Coffee) via the app. Once I received a response back from Costa Coffee I could see this audit log via the Stellar blockchain explorer. For now it shows a long technical-looking number that simply shows that the transaction has taken place. Ok this screenshot is no Mona Lisa, but the key point of showing that I have sent a data request and the organisation has responded is pretty significant.

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Transaction ID when Costa Coffee replied to my data request

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This public ledger means that in the future, NGOs or data regulators could even use this public data for annual data reports on the data landscape, or to better understand those organisations that are fulfilling their obligations, and going above and beyond GDPR compliance. As the blockchain space matures, we hope that user experiences will improve in parallel. We hope to see a future where open source tools can further help this visualisation.

​

# It just fits

Blockchain works towards our mission to build trust and transparency between organisations and individuals. Using the Stellar public ledger means we can build audit trails around the exchange and movement of personal data between organisations and individuals.

The impact of this could lead to better data insights, safer more transparent movement of data, and the prospect of improved trust between customers and organisations.

Please do share, and comment if you have further technical questions. Happy to answer any questions.

​

### We’re in beta!

Tap makes it simple for individuals to see what personal data organisations hold about them, and then act on it. Join our beta.

\[We don’t collect your personal data](https://medium.com/tap-my-data/we-dont-want-your-data-pushing-boundaries-in-data-collection-and-end-to-end-encryption-for-apps-ebd1d5f79df5).*

Download for Apple / iOs

Download for Android

### Join our community:

- Telegram
- Twitter
- Medium
- LinkedIn

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Posted by
u/cpt2020
2 days ago

## Stellar: The PayPal of the Blockchain World

blockpublisher.com/stella...
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Posted by
u/SmartlandsPlatform
1 day ago

## Smartlands October Newsletter: Special Edition

smartlands.io/newsle...
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Posted by
u/Light_of_Lucifer
1 day ago

## Stellar ICO assets

Do assets like SLT function like erc tokens do in that you can transfer SLT to any lumen address??? Or rather does SLT need it own wallet to store it in???

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