R2R,
Regarding Stellar, it's a combination of the talent behind the scenes and it's platform. I like it's run by a non-profit organization that is staying more true to the decentralized thought process using open-source applications to benefit those who want to use it. Stellar is not a closed door operation, the platform truly wants to make transferring something of value available to others through an efficient process at a very reasonable price. It's goal is not to replace fiat or what is of value, but to enable different people/groups/corporations to transfer something of value using it's platform in a timely economical method benefiting the involved party's. And that manner of transfer is very liquid within the network, meaning that it has multiple facets to get the transfer completed, it's not locked into one method. You have the non-profit side, the network side, the community side and the lumens to glue the whole thing together--it's a open-source network.
I also DON'T think that Stellar is set up to make one rich, it's a method/platform that has a purpose in which a cryptocurrency was meant to be used. And, IMHO, this is what makes Stellar very intriguing to what's going on in the crypto community as a whole. I believe the Stellar organization knows who and what they are and how they will move forward in a benefiting way. The value is not here today but here tomorrow, IMHO.
I don't know if say, buying lumens would be an investment or more of supporting a better method that is not exactly implemented in today's global economy. I do believe in this network because of the people behind the network utilizing this type of technology.
Regarding Stellar, it's a combination of the talent behind the scenes and it's platform. I like it's run by a non-profit organization that is staying more true to the decentralized thought process using open-source applications to benefit those who want to use it. Stellar is not a closed door operation, the platform truly wants to make transferring something of value available to others through an efficient process at a very reasonable price. It's goal is not to replace fiat or what is of value, but to enable different people/groups/corporations to transfer something of value using it's platform in a timely economical method benefiting the involved party's. And that manner of transfer is very liquid within the network, meaning that it has multiple facets to get the transfer completed, it's not locked into one method. You have the non-profit side, the network side, the community side and the lumens to glue the whole thing together--it's a open-source network.
I also DON'T think that Stellar is set up to make one rich, it's a method/platform that has a purpose in which a cryptocurrency was meant to be used. And, IMHO, this is what makes Stellar very intriguing to what's going on in the crypto community as a whole. I believe the Stellar organization knows who and what they are and how they will move forward in a benefiting way. The value is not here today but here tomorrow, IMHO.
I don't know if say, buying lumens would be an investment or more of supporting a better method that is not exactly implemented in today's global economy. I do believe in this network because of the people behind the network utilizing this type of technology.