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Questions about Stellar are off topic. Questions about Stellar belong at https://stellar.stackexchange.com/. Stellar is an open source protocol for value exchange. The Stellar protocol is supported by a nonprofit, Stellar.org, which aims to expand financial access and literacy worldwide. Stellar.org was founded in early 2014 by Jed McCaleb and Joyce Kim.

What questions belong here?

Questions about the Stellar network, SCP (Stellar Consensus Protocol), and Horizon (Stellar API server) all belong in this tag. Note that there is also a new Stack Exchange site dedicated to questions about Stellar, but it's still in private beta.

Intro: what is Stellar?

Stellar is an open source platform for building financial products that connect people globally.

Links to learn more

Stellar developer portal

MIT Tech Review

Stellar Wikipedia

Social implications of Stellar: financial inclusion

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How does one mine Stellar

I was able to mine Ripple for a time using boinc, will Stellar offer something like this? are there other ways to mine Stellar?
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What is the difference between Ripple and Stellar?

I went through the site but I don't see how Stellar differs from Ripple. I see that there are differences in distribution, everything is made open source from day one and the company is non profit instead of for profit as in Ripple. Both were…
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What happens when a fork/network split occurs on the Stellar network?

Say some country decides to somehow block all outgoing Stellar connections for 30 minutes. With a voting based consensus that Stellar has chains in both networks progress with a similar speed. After the network split is over there will be two…
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Stellar UTF-8 Support

We are developing the open government auctions system on “Stellar” platform. We forked Stellar and run our own network. We’ve added Lot creation transactions, auction participation, bids etc. There is encoding problem. We tried this solution: …
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Regarding Stellar as an Alternative currency transaction manager

I am working on an alternative currency. We are not wedded to any particular software, but have definite term and conditions for participants. Our own dispute resolution system, and standard of value. One credit equals the median hourly wage for…
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How does Stellar multi-signing happen practically?

In Blog we read, that Government & NGO came together to sign the transaction, and in docs we read that transaction is invalid if it includes signatures that aren't needed to authorize the transaction and that a transaction envelope wraps a…
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Does AUTHORIZATION_REVOCABLE flag affects all credits help or up to any amount?

If one issues currency with AUTHORIZATION_REVOCABLE flag, and account A hold 100 credits of it, can issuer revoke only 13 credits? Can account A spend the rest 87 credits as normal?
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Direct vote and SCP quorum

So there is a fixed 1% annual rate of new stellar creation. These new stellars will be generated on a weekly basis and distributed via a direct voting method. But, there's a distinction between what the direct vote agrees on and what the SCP nodes…
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Is the Stellar inflation voting public?

The Stellar network allows users to vote on who will earn its 1% annual STR inflation. I am wondering - is this information publicly available on the Stellar ledger or somewhere else? How can one find out which account voted for who and how big…
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Disjoint quora slices and global ledger status.

Theoretically, if all the nodes in the quorum participate only in disjoint slices, then there wouldn't ever be a single global state of the ledger. Does Stellar help identify such scenarios in the network (main or private)? From the Stellar…
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How do I use Stellar API to power my Universal Trading and Multicurrency Payment+Transacton Gateway?

I am planning to build on top of Stellar a unified universal gateway+trading platform(all frequencies) for banks and financial institutions to power ultrafast international payment transfers in fiat/crypto currencies, automated equity and forex…
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Is there a public API server for Stellar?

I'm writing a Stellar application. I'm looking to use the API provided by stellard without running a copy of it myself. Is there a public API server for Stellar?
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Do all consensus algorithms aim to solve the Byzantine generals problem?

Can I clarify my understanding: Byzantine Fault Tolerance is a characteristic of a system to tolerate a class of failures belonging to the byzantine generals problem. Byzantine Fault tolerance is also the name of the consensus algorithm that solves…
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How to convert Stellar Lumens into USD

I have created Stellar account. I have to transfer lumens to other account in USD. How can I convert lumens to USD? On stellar site, it is mentioned that we have create trust line with provided Anchors. But while creating thrust line it is always…
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REST API to create Stellar account?

In the REST API documentation, I didn't see an option to create an account. Obviously then, the code snippet here to create an account has to be front-ended by some other API so that a request to create an account can be catered to. I am not sure…
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