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I'm a big fan of Stellar. It looks like the only cryptocurrency with an actual use case that works today and minimises costs for companies[1][2] building on top of it. Everything else looks like mostly hype driven. I would say that this is one of the reasons it trades so different from everything else, except Ripple.

As many developers hang out here I want to point out that the Stellar Foundation has a rolling competition for developers: https://www.stellar.org/lumens/build/. You can see here all the projects submitted to the last round: https://galactictalk.org/t/sbc2017april

[1]: https://tempo.eu.com/en [2]: http://chippercash.com/

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Could you help me to put your opinion in the right context by answering a few questions?

- Do you own Stellar Lumens?

- Are you involved in any Stellar related projects?

I won Lumens in the previous build challenges, run a community forum and are building a company that uses the Stellar network.

I'm not trying to give investment advice in my post. You should definitely not be buying Lumens if you don't need them. Most of them are going to be given away: https://www.stellar.org/about/mandate/

Thanks, I appreciate your openness.

Is that the thing Stripe (or someone) launched years ago? The one where they were giving 50 coins free per subscriber?

Yes, Stripe invested into Stellar. https://stripe.com/blog/stellar

Semi-related question:

I got some of those ICO coins back then - i registered with username/password back then

Still have username/password but i am unsure where to actually login? Anyone familiar w/ Stellar knows how to get to the account?

I just went through the same process – had some coins from the ICO a couple of years ago.

If you head to https://launch.stellar.org/#/login you can log in. I got a message prompting me to contact Support, which I've done and now awaiting a reply.

Same here, it asked me for a confirmation code over email, but I received nothing, so I'm waiting for Support.

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