Thanks for the response. Please don't let my candidness offend you.
Other than desire to make this technology reach more public, I assume your group knows how RCT works and Masari will implore R&D to further improve it? My question on item4 is how the funds(4k blocks) will be managed but I can't find any concise response. Creating and launching a blockchain always espouse resources from its creator. Selling some funds to recover your out of pocket and for maintenance of infrastructure is understandable.
Good luck on your project. I hope for your success. I will be mining and buying some.
@oslak I've studied the CryptoNote protocol well enough, and have an understanding of RingCT's inner workings (the initial reason for researching into Monero). My educational background is in Computer Science, so I can get by on understanding the Math involved, though I doubt t would be able to out-compete professional cryptographers and people with PhD's in Mathematics My R&D efforts will be focused on scalability, as that is more in line with my skillset. The group involved with this project will be mostly focused around scalability and ease-of-use, though this doesn't discount future R&D efforts into RCT's protocol.
Apologies I missed the intent regarding #4 - I am a HODLer, and any rewards from blocks I have mined will be HODLed. The extent of use for my holdings have been giving out small sums for friends to play with, or sums as a thank you for helping out in behind the scenes work (i.e. infrastructure consulting).
If you're concerned about any pump & dump scenarios, we're only a month in, there are plenty of early miners, some of which have large hash rates, and we're at ~23k blocks - the only market influence I have on the coin's marketplace is my development efforts in the project. This coin will have over 2.6 million blocks before tail emission kicks in (~10 years), and miners have plenty of time to speculate and profit off of Masari.
P.S. I appreciate the candidness!