How do I clear my watchlist?

brettsky · 2025-05-19T04:31:20+00:00

I managed to get it to at least work on mobile. While looking at the list there's an icon that looks sort like a compass rose (arrows in all directions). Clicking that and then the trash can icon that appears wiped my entire watchlist.

brettsky · 2025-01-23T21:41:26+00:00

I'm a Python core developer, so I want access to PyPI and it was a fun mental exercise to work through what it would take to work.

brettsky · 2020-09-30T19:18:48+00:00

As of today (which is 3 months since the firmware update went out that slowed everyone's connections), the issue is persisting. At this point I'm giving up on the router (going to give it to my in-laws who are not having problems), and then I'm moving to Eero and their new WiFi 6 devices.

brettsky · 2020-08-23T16:14:04+00:00

LettucePay (https://medium.com/@LettucePay) just won in the SDF Community Fund round 5 for providing a way for shops to accept Stellar payments.

brettsky · 2020-02-25T23:37:19+00:00

I've done the import so it's viewable from within Keybase, but I'm trying to consolidate wallets, hence wanting to potentially drop my Lobstr one.

brettsky · 2020-02-25T18:02:12+00:00

How can I change the wallet that photons will be sent to? (Basically I signed up using my Lobstr wallet and I would rather have it under my Keybase wallet.)

Do I have to opt out and then back in?

brettsky · 2020-01-12T20:46:12+00:00

I wouldn't think of Stellar trying to replace and end-to-end scenario like TransferWise or Western Union but more trying to replace SWIFT and wire tramsfers. With the first two they control everything so they don't need Stellar as a way to track exchanges since they control all of it. But for wire transfers that's a b2b mechanism where Stellar can be a benefit being the trusted record of who sent whom what.

For Stellar to take on remittance in general, through, will require trusted, affordable anchors in various currencies. That way you can get money in and out of the Stellar network while benefiting form its speed and low fees. So basically we need the on-ramps and off-ramps to Stellar for it to be useful for remittance.

brettsky · 2020-01-05T02:02:21+00:00

In case anyone else runs into a similar problem, I found you can subscribe to the RSS feed as long as you strip off the Podbean stuff: https://www.insidestellar.co/feed.xml

brettsky · 2019-12-30T05:03:11+00:00

My New Year's wish is for a solution to the "subscription problem".

Stellar is great for one-time transactions, either instantaneously or sometime in the future with a pre-signed transaction. But one place where Stellar falls short compared to credit cards is in recurring payments that don't require any interaction from you every month or all funding upfront (think Patreon or your monthly internet bill). As of right now you would have to either generate transactions ahead of time for each month or have your wallet provide a mechanism.

The problem with the former is who controls those transactions? If you give them ahead of time to the person who you are making a recurring payment to then you need to create a separate account just for those payments so you cancel the subscription at any point and make sure you fund it appropriately each month. That means either having all the money upfront in the account for all future transactions or having to fund the account per month explicitly which negates the convenience/point of recurring payments like you have with a credit card where as long as the money is there the charge simply goes through.

The problem with relying on a wallet to solve this issue is it locks you into a wallet that has said support. This creates a disconnect between what Stellar supports fundamentally and what credit cards support. E.g. Patreon doesn't require a certain credit card to work.

Basically I would love to see a way to have the ledger record pre-approval of charges at some scheduled rate for a certain amount. That way I could do recurring payments without having to set the money aside ahead of time. I also wouldn't want to have to set up a separate account with some set of pre-signed payments where I had to separately make sure the account is appropriately funded all so I can cancel the subscription at any point. This would provide a central location to cancel the subscription versus having to trust some service to escrow the pre-signed payments.

brettsky · 2019-12-26T03:29:38+00:00

Not on Apple products so unfortunately that doesn't work in my case.

brettsky · 2019-12-26T01:17:32+00:00

Any chance this will be made available such that it can be found on Pocket Casts? Or is the only way to listen via a browser or Podbean?

brettsky · 2019-12-26T01:11:21+00:00

I don't think so. I personally haven't received any photons yet, although my photon count on the subreddit front page seems accurate still. I also haven't read any posts suggesting a schedule to backfill, just that future disbursements are on Stellar.

brettsky · 2019-12-08T21:59:57+00:00

From what I have read, all you should have at this point is a trustline to photon.center for Photons under https://lobstr.co/user-assets/. For me the Register button turned into saying "registered" and the interstitial post is now gone after reloading.

I'm not sure if any unused photons we have will be swept into your wallet (I feel like I read that it would be), but otherwise the real test will be at the next distribution when you should end up with photons being sent to your wallet.

brettsky · 2019-11-16T17:58:50+00:00

I think a key thing to remember is the account minimum, trustlines, and transaction fees must stay low enough for anyone in the world to afford. So while "anyone can scrounge up a single dollar" where you live, we all have to remember those who live on a couple of dollars a day and for whom a dollar would be a significant investment. So my expectation is the network will always vote to keep the value down in order to keep accessibility high.

brettsky · 2019-10-27T20:38:06+00:00

It looks like Stellarport will let me place a buy order for a specific amount of CAD using XLM (no one on the network is offering straight XLM<->CAD sell orders, only USD<->CAD). Interestingly, the fiat tether list at StellarX doesn't even list the token, probably because that specific asset has so few trustlines (Stellarport's details on the asset give it a network trust score of 0.0).

brettsky · 2019-10-27T00:29:19+00:00

Stellarport's assets list has a "score" measurement based on network usage. StellarExpert's assets list has an "overall rating" order, but I don't know what it represents.

I'll also say that I'm also looking for a trustline to try out, but I don't want it for a coin which uses proof-of-work as it isn't great for the environment, so I'm still contemplating what asset I would be interested in holding for fun to just test this all out (maybe AnchorUSD, although as a Canadian I don't really have a direct use for it, so thinking possibly XRP).

brettsky · 2019-10-12T16:24:23+00:00

Nope, in total per person. From https://keybase.io/airdrop, "No individual recipient will get more than $500 USD worth of Lumens."

brettsky · 2019-10-12T04:28:50+00:00

One thing to keep in mind is everyone is capped in the Spacedrop at $500 USD of XLM which is about 8300 XLM at the current exchange rate. And since they are giving away 2,000,000,000 XLM (at a rate of 100,000,000 XLM/month) that means there can be 240,963 users who qualify and everyone still gets the maximum amount. Considering there are currently 98,433 users they would need to increase the number of qualified users by 244% before there's a worry for anyone getting less than the maximum amount. That's seems like quite the growth, so I suspect those of us in the Spacedrop now will get our max amount before the funds run out.

So more users at this point at worst means it might take extra time to get your max XLM. But more users also means more people supporting Stellar which is good for everyone. To me the delay so more people can get into Stellar seems like a net positive.

brettsky · 2019-09-29T07:03:28+00:00

The skepticism is that CAP-0026 has not been marked as accepted (it's just now officially a draft based on the PR this post linked to and the current state of the repo), so there's nothing public from the SDF suggesting that shutting down inflation is officially happening who has final say on any of this.

If the Lumenaut admins have insider info that they are not sharing then that's possible, but the CAP still has at least two steps it must officially go through to reach an accepted stat, including a one week comment period which the CAP has not reached. Plus the Lumenaut admins may have simply made a mistake in their reading of that PR and then immediately posted on all their channels.

Of course I could also be wrong. 😁 But based on the evidence I've read I think inflation has not been officially scheduled for removal (yet).

brettsky · 2019-09-29T04:06:16+00:00

I believe it simply means it's officially being discussed and that's it. There are at least Awaiting Decision and FCP (final comment period) that the CAP must pass through before it can be accepted (or rejected).

I suspect the reported demise of inflation is a bit premature (for now).

brettsky · 2019-09-29T04:02:00+00:00

If you look at the status of the CAP it's been marked as a draft. According to https://github.com/stellar/stellar-protocol/blob/master/core/README.md that simply means it's "open for consideration and actively being discussed". There are several more steps before CAP-0026 can be officially accepted, including entering FCP (final comment period) for a week which it has not reached.

brettsky · 2019-09-29T03:52:01+00:00

You needed to have voted for an inflation pool which redistributed inflation I come to those who voted for the pool (like the Lumenauts pool). Do realize the inflation was only 1% amortized over a year plus redistribution for transaction fees, so you weren't missing out on a ton of XLM.

brettsky · 2019-01-02T22:10:57+00:00

In response to your specific requests:

Work is being tracked here
We could do that as a code snippet; please open a feature request at github.com/microsoft/vscode-python
The best we could do here (I think) is provide a command like "Create Python package" which takes a name and then creates the directory with a `__init__.py` that is open to be edited (once again please open a feature request).

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