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Disappointed that I have to sign in with facebook to receive stellars.


I am one of the folks working at Stellar. Yes, FB isn't a login method that will work for everyone. But today is our first day saying hello to the world; we do plan on adding more methods soon. Thanks.


A few suggestions (which would probably need to be limited to over X age):

* Google accounts

* Github accounts

* Twitter accounts

* bitcoin-otc accounts (probably with a minimum reputation)

* GPG keys with some minimum threshold of age and "signedness"

* S/MIME certificates from issuers that verify government ID.

I'm guessing the difficulty with supporting multiple methods is a desire to limit this to 5k/person. I'm not sure there's a good solution to this, though I will say that you may have just added some additional incentive to steal Facebook credentials.


That's great to hear. Thanks!


Totally agree - absolutely no interest in getting a facebook account. Leaves me out of this, I guess.




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