Interesting project, my favorite aspect is the ability of the coin to directly fund development (and not just to c0 folks, but anybody).
Questions for Decred team:
- Will there be support at any exchanges on genesis launch day?
- Is there a privacy policy regarding the identities you're collecting for the airdrop? (I couldn't find mention of this on your website)
- can you expand on what the constitution will look like? who will write it? I ask because you already mentioned a private entity that receives the 10% dev funding, but how will it decide who deserves to be awarded contracts?
- given the undeniable technical skill of your team as well as the team's history with bitcoin, why an alt coin? Have you considered the possibility of implementing the decred feature set as a 2 way peg sidechain [1] ? If you considered this but decided against it, can you say why?
To expand a little on my motivation for the last question: I ask because it seems odd to me that the btcsuite team would choose to compete with bitcoin when there are other options (potentially, maybe you can tell me why there aren't). In other words, you could potentially prove the design decisions behind decred in a sidechain, and bitcoin users could vote with their feet (i.e. coins) by moving to your chain.
[1] for an example of a simple sidechain design, see Paul Sztorc's proposal here:
http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/drivechain/