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Comment by everettForth | Hacker News Reader

Hi everyone,

I'm just excited about Stellar, and buying it early on. I'm also a software engineer, so if anyone has some cool ideas for things that could be built with a large stellar wallet, please let me know.

I'm especially interested in things Greg Brockman has been talking about lately, like this gateway, and making up his own currency: https://stripe.com/blog/bitcoin-the-stripe-perspective

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    SandroG 1 hour ago
    
    I'm in touch with Stellar developers, and they confirmed
    that this individual is indeed gaming the system.

Response? Sounds like defamation.

I almost didn't even want to comment on this, but it really isn't a big deal. It looks like a screenshot taken out of context of someone who sent a private message asking someone to look at my account.

Are you gaming it or not?

He's not gaming it.

Then how did he come across 300+ individuals willing to sell him their entire account so quickly?

Mechanical Turk, I believe: https://twitter.com/thegdb/status/495656012343300097. There's a decent exchange rate: more than a dollar per account.

2 thoughts:

1) None of the accounts listed on the Mechanical Turk's HITs are pointing to everettforth

2) None of the accounts referenced in these HITs have a growing balance

It's 4000+ individuals not 300

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