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Stellar is a fork of Ripple. As well who cares about a free $10? Locking up a coin until you get millions of users means 94.9% of this coin will be locked up for decades (big if) while the only tradeable coins will be Stripe's and Stellar's and then the crumbs from the direct signup crowd. That means this coin will be heavily manipulated like Marine Coan and Solar Coin.
That means Stellar is worse than Ripple, imho. The entire rhetoric in Stellar HQ is that if we make this coin for free then millions of people will come our way and make us rich. I don't see it happening because, to be frank, crypto currencies are still a niche hobby and Bitcoin only has 1 to 2 million users.
Where's Stellar going to get their millions of new users? Ditto. If I wanted to buy Stellar then I'ld instead buy Ripple, they'll always be a step ahead of Stellar as Stellar is a fork.