I helped someone claim their Stellar Lumens tonight and wondered if my Steemit followers have claimed theirs as well. If you owned Bitcoin or Ripple as of a specific date (and still have access to those private keys so you can sign a message), then you can claim some Stellar Lumens (XLM) based on their distribution described in detail here: https://www.stellar.org/blog/bitcoin-claim-lumens-2/
If you're thinking about doing this, you need to hurry because the deadline is August 27th.
Also, much like Steemit did early on, they authenticate with Facebook as part of the process, so that might put some people off.
If you already did this, you can check your balance at the stellar laboratory.
If you're looking for a local wallet to keep your Stellar, I installed the wallet from Github and it seems to work great.
I now have a nice little chunk of XLM, and I think I'll hold on to it a bit and see what happens after August 27th. Is it possible the distribution up this point has kept the price low? Could the price rise as the supply/demand curve changes? I'm interested in finding out. Here's the price info right now:
If you have your bitcoin on a paper wallet, this post can help: Step By Step: Getting Your Bitcoin Cash out of a Bitcoin Paper Wallet. It's the same basic process here in that you import your private key into Electrum and then you can sign the message they ask you to sign in order to claim your XLM.
If you're already going through this process, you may want to look into Byteball as well. The next distirbution is in 11 days on September 6th: https://byteball.org/
I hope you found this useful! Let me know if you've claimed your Stellar and what you plan to do it with, if you're going to hold or sell.
Oh, also, while we're talking various cryptocurrencies, if you're looking for a way to manage your holdings you may find my Cryptocurrency Bank Spreadsheet from 5 months ago useful.
