> Stellar is a brand new decentralized protocol<p>Nope, it's just a clone of Ripple by the same author. He just dumped all his XRP, rebranded the whole thing, and started a new pump and dump scheme. He tried really hard to remove all the Ripple references from the code, but the whole concept looked so similar (nothing interesting, just another premined, centralized in practice service) that people caught him in no time.