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My coins that I had since 2014 were 'corrupted', and unrecoverable, even though the only thing I have is the exact code that the stellar website and email sent me.

Great stuff!

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Any coins that are unclaimed will be reallocated to the Stellar foundation. An optimistic view may hold that they might attempt to give them away to more people. A pessimistic view may propose that they're now able to sell them without looking like they're trying to make money.

So maybe they already reclaimed your coins?

Honestly, I don't care what happens to the coins after they were taken from me, just like I don't care if someone steals my car and joy rides with it, or steals my car and drives their grandma to dialysis with it. The fact that they knew there was a technical issue, but didn't try to redistribute the coins at the time they recognized the issue. I realize this is like $1 we are talking about, but hey, that's loss aversion for you.

If you lost the 6k coins that they distributed for free back in 2014, you lost way more than $1.

Heh, remembered they existed because of the hype on it now. Turns out I had the 5000 signup stellar coins lying around. Easiest 2700 bucks I ever made.

Who the hell is buying these things.

I made $2900, didn't even know it was a currency back in 2014 when I signed up

2900?? are you telling me I lost 200 dollars early selling?? Time to buy 50k worth now!

I think he means you lost it late selling. It was higher a few weeks ago.

I recently recovered a bunch of coins I signed up for in 2014 and had no issues.

Same here

How did you manage to do this? I'm in the same boat. I have the username, password and recovery key yet I can't login and the website tells me that recovery has been disabled for my account.

Exact same here - please let me know if you figure out the solution.

See this thread https://www.reddit.com/r/Stellar/comments/7jf9yq/solving_upg...

Same. Friend of mine tipped me off to having rediscovered his account, I gave it a try, and everything worked out after the conversion to the new platform (which is when STR became XLM).

This was maybe 4-5 weeks ago.

Same thing happened to me. They changed their infrastructure and now I can't recover mine.

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