Stellar account with more than one million stellars

Hi everyone,<p>I&#x27;m just excited about Stellar, and buying it early on. I&#x27;m also a software engineer, so if anyone has some cool ideas for things that could be built with a large stellar wallet, please let me know.<p>I&#x27;m especially interested in things Greg Brockman has been talking about lately, like this gateway, and making up his own currency: <a href="https://stripe.com/blog/bitcoin-the-stripe-perspective" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stripe.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;bitcoin-the-stripe-perspective</a>

Why did Stellar decide on using Facebook accounts to enforce the one account per person rule, instead of something better like mobile numbers? There are more people with cell phones than there are with Facebook accounts. Acquiring large batches of phone numbers to game the system is harder since it costs money and is more easily detectable.<p>Even if this guy isn&#x27;t gaming the system with fake Facebook accounts, I&#x27;m sure others already are.

EDIT: This actually doesn&#x27;t work, but I thought I was being clever.<p>For those mentioning needing Facebook accounts. It looks like you don&#x27;t need a Facebook account to game the reward system.<p>Assume a person has a main account (user1) with at least 1050 STR.<p>1. Create a New Account (user2)<p>2. Transfer 1050 STR from user1 -&gt; user2<p>3. Transfer 1000 STR from user2 -&gt; user1<p>4. Stellarfoundation makes 1000 STR deposit into user2<p>5. Send newly acquired 1000 STR from user2 -&gt; user1<p>Starting balance: 1050 STR<p>Ending balance: 2000 STR

Note, this particular user is willing to sell 100K stellars for $200.<p>Fun times watching a market being made in the early days.... <a href="https://forum.stellar.org/t/selling-100-000-stellars/716" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.stellar.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;selling-100-000-stellars&#x2F;716</a>

Stellar itself seems to be scamming people:<p>&quot;50% of the total will be distributed to people who sign up for an account.&quot;<p>Once you sign up for an account, you find out that you only receive stellars if you log in with Facebook ... if you want to build trust, you should be more transparent. You also need some way of including users who don&#x27;t have Facebook (and&#x2F;or Google) accounts.

EverettForth&#x27;s response: [How I Accumulated 2-Million Stellar in Less Than 24 Hours] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8126282" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8126282</a><p>Everett&#x27;s response is much appreciated. If I remember correctly, he asked mTurkers to create a Stellar account _without_ an identifiable account name so the transaction couldn&#x27;t be easily backtracked. Also, he did not use his real name in mTurk and impersonated someone else. Not sure if his actions violated the ToS.<p>It was right for Everett to have come forward and disclose his means. His suggestions to improve the system are excellent. It will improve the Stellar system for everyone involved. Nevertheless, I believe that he should donate his balance to a charity. It will be an honorable thing to do.<p>Sandro

This is a new 100% premined cryptocurrency from the makers of ripple. Stripe has invested in this technology; so it already has some fiat backing behind the haul.<p>Whomever this is, and they are likely associated with the project as have an associated email, is gathering funds from the projects premined wallets for distribution. Like ripple, they are handing these out to people interested in the technology. I received part of the initial distribution of ripple by posting on the bitcoin forums. I encourage you to make an account, nothing to lose here; the initial distribution of the currency helps with its decentralization.<p>Paypal used to pay people to make new accounts too!

Wow, I saw his post earlier on the Stellar subreddit and thought he was full of it, but would you look at that. Here&#x27;s the post: <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/thestellar/comments/2cebkm/selling_100000_stellars/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;thestellar&#x2F;comments&#x2F;2cebkm&#x2F;selling_1...</a><p>Some people have been offering web consulting services in exchange for stellars, but no details yet on how this guy built his wealth.

I could have missed it, but didn&#x27;t notice a disclosure on Stellar sign-up that usernames and balances would be discoverable this way.

Now we might see whether it&#x27;s centralized.

What does this mean? Anyone care to explain?

Update: Done. No Worries. If you have no friends and need to complete the steps; willing to help by sending you back the stellars.<p>I&#x27;ll send you stellar, you send me stellar. Let&#x27;s complete their final step. Stellar username &quot;oinam&quot;.

Based on all available documentation about Stellar, it is impossible to accrue so much Stellars so quickly, and so consistently, without somehow gaming the system. Anyone willing to prove me wrong?

What is stellar and how is this proof of anything?

Well, proof that someone has a lot of stellars.<p>He could be gaming the Facebook promotion, or buying them, or stealing them, or _____

It means someone is making a ton of money =D

Can anyone suggest an accurate, neutral title? This one is outrageously over the top. There&#x27;s no &quot;proof&quot; of anything here.<p>Submitters: gratuitous scandal-mongering is not ok on Hacker News.<p>Edit: the submitted title was &quot;Proof that someone is gaming Stellar. Growing balance at 100K &#x2F; hour&quot;

If anyone wants to complete the last step, if you send me the 1000 Stellars, I&#x27;ll send 900 back. Username is Davv. The first person to do it will get 1000 back (since I need to do it too)