Hi bruno,
Are Pearls going to be minable?
Are the content creators the only ones who will receive benefits from monetization or the users who give CPU power to the blockchain will receive benefits too?
Thanks in advance, I hope this will be a success.
1) Pearls a dynamically minted in the smart contract. When ETH is sent to the contract during the ICO (which is now) pearls are generated up until the maximum possible supply of 500 million PRL.
2) The benefit that users get is access to content from the website, not the financial value of the pearls. However, it is possible for websites to allocate a system that pays their visitors with an extension to the Oyster core logic. Oyster is completely decentralized so people can modify parts of it as they please. The money earned by the website via Oyster helps pay for the creation and hosting of content, so it makes more economic sense to have them receive the full pearl revenue instead of the visitor that benefits from the content.
Otherwise, anyone is able to go hunting for pearls and keep them for themselves. It's possible that a lot of people will use their personal computers to find pearls in the typical mining sense, Oyster does not block it in anyway. It will depend on the efficiency of pearl hunting in contrast to the price of electricity, so the free market will sort out the economic tensions.
