100% pre-mined? No thanks.
People complain about the distribution of Bitcoin being imbalanced. This is 100x worse.
People complain about the distribution of Bitcoin being imbalanced. This is 100x worse.
Also, mining obviously has many benefits, but it's still limited to people who are highly technical and/or who have money to spend. We wanted to provide much broader access to digital currency, and so stellars will be given away for free at the click of a button.
To encourage transparency, anyone can see how many stellars have been given away here: https://www.stellar.org/stats/
(I think it's very important that whatever primitives you're building on have solid theoretical foundations, and I'm pretty excited to see the infrastructure improvements Stellar is going to introduce there.)
I created a Stellar account but am in the minority of people who don't have a Facebook account and was a little disappointed.