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From few days ago: "PSA: Check your inbox for email from stellar.org, you may be sitting on $ " - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16109292

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Thanks for this. Now what do I do, though? I'd rather not mess this up. I can log in to launch.stellar.org and can "upgrade" to lumens. Do I do that? My goal is to sell them for USD.

Yes, I went through that process and it was pretty painless. I recommend going the extra step and getting a secure wallet to store them in. Ledger (https://www.ledgerwallet.com/products/ledger-nano-s) has an app for Stellar Lumens.

A secure wallet is not super helpful if immediately cashing out (to fiat), right?

A legitimate, soup-to-nuts "turn one email into $___ in cash" walkthrough (perhaps the beginnings of which is below, though I can't personally vouch for it) would do well!

https://medium.com/@marckohlbrugge/you-might-have-204-worth-...

(Search "2. Stellar" [no quotes] twice; does anyone know how to link directly on Medium? This piece focuses more on breadth than depth, covering multiple cryptocurrencies. The only useful Stellar info there seems to be https://launch.stellar.org/#/login)

The process I followed was:

* create an account on binance.com

* transfer the stellars there, making sure to follow the instructions about the MEMO_TEXT.

* convert the lumens into bitcoin

* transfer the bitcoin to coinbase

* sell it.

There is probably a more optimized or less expensive way to accomplish this, but this was the easiest way for me, and binance did not require a social security number or photo id like some sites wanted.

I always use Ripple or Litecoin for transfers, much quicker and much lower fees. (I don't use Coinbase though, not sure whats supported there)

Litecoin's supported on Coinbase, if that's the route someone wants to take.

I created http://www.stellar-price.com which checks a bunch of exchanges and shows you the best route to buy or sell stellar.

Thank you for this comment. I checked my email, found out I had 40K, and cashed out half.

We live in strange times.

Congrats! Curious why you got 40k though? I thought everyone received 6k.

They gave out various amounts at different times. Probably got in earlier, and I think there were rewards for doing more with them.

I wish I knew! I signed up pretty early.

Ha! Found the email, recovered the account and found 125.899988 lumens. Wonder what I did with the rest? Not sure if they were 6000, or 500 or something else.

It was 6000 in the original airdrop, and after that there was an airdrop against bitcoin addresses in a proportional fashion (only if you chose to claim them, if i am recalling correctly.)

It is not from a bitcoin giveaway for sure. I guess I just played with it, too bad I can not see the transaction history.

There was one where you signed up with Facebook and got 5k too. I got quite a chunk of change by getting all my friends to log me in with their accounts.

There was a guy who scripted himself a huge number of the facebook giveaway airdrop. I have vague recollections of his hoard being invalidated via a hard fork or some other method!

My account was corrupted during the migration from STL -> XLM. Not even my recovery code works. Multiple support emails with Stellar and no dice being able to access my XLM :( .

Same here; recovery code doesn't work. I reached out to them with no response. Not very promising that they couldn't even migrate early adopters over safely.

Same problem here :-(

Same problem here. I have been promised that it will be solved.

Same thing here :-(

Thanks for this. I had bought a couple of bitcoins in 2014 just for kicks and don't even remember signing up for Stellar- even though I recently bought some on the market. Saw this message and checked my email and lo and behold- You've got Stellar. Recovering and upgrading was a breeze. I'm $3600 richer.

Looks like I never verified my email, so I didn't get any of the distribution. Too bad!

Sweet! Found ~6k XLM :) Title of the email is "Stellars to get you started".

Wow, thanks!

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