Getting interested and want some quick answers before I dive deeper. At first glance this appears to be similar to Waves or Bitshares (Obits) decentralized exchange. Bitshares has a 3 second blocktime. What does HEAT have?
I would be interested in providing liquidity services and market making on the exchange. Are there any publicly available bots or company funds set aside for such purpose? Is the API available? I may be able to help in this.
There is no company fund for this. Yes the API is available
Some of the tools can be found here.
https://heatwallet.com/api/#!/Tools/encodePlease bear with my questions:
---I see there is some kind of rewards - not sure how this works and POS and inflation. Does this mean I can stake my tokens and earn any interest? Is it proportional to the number of tokens I can stake? Are rewards live yet?
Yes you earn POS rewards by running a node. Its basicly like earning interest but your wallet needs to be online with the server running. At the moment its roughly 5% per month.
---Regarding the value of the HEAT token - What purpose does it serve besides securing network (above) - Is there some kind of payout, or burning (like OBITS) every X days, or are they merely a placeholder to get some kind of discount on the eventual company stock and to secure the network (POS)? Ideally, I like coins that could eventually earn their own dividends or am open to the idea of company stock.
The HEAT coin is used to pay fees to the network. I dont remember what other plans there are.
At the end of the year there will be an IPO. Holding HEAT by a specific date yet to be announced will grant you options to buy Heat Ledger shares for half price.
---Can the eventual stock be owned by a US citizen? Will it be traded on any traditional exchanges? Can I acquire it besides owning "HEAT" tokens? What is the price with or without HEAT? Can I buy HEAT now and get same stock benefit as if I bought on day 1?
---Is there any more information on these items since the whitepaper?
---Any social channels (Slack)?
---Any better charting available? The existing chart is horrible, but I realize it is new. Looks cool though.
For the rest I guess you will find better answers on slack
https://heatslack.herokuapp.com/