Several pages back, you said there are around 6 million coins in circulation.
How many coins currently exist?
Is there a premine? If so, for what purpose?
There is somewhere in the 12 millions total existant, you can check in your wallet for exact figure.
Yes there was a premine,but it was moved to escrow for safe keeping while i focus on development. I just don't have the time for anything else so it'll remain there until i have time. The 6 million is held in escrow by EmpoEx, on this address
ESCROW The initial purpose was to do a delayed ICO at block 8000 and use the funds to hire more developers and speed things up, we ended up dropping that, instead focusing on development. It has been slower but has allowed refinement of the idea and better cohesion.
I prefer the technical work than handling all that, so until the community decides otherwise, those funds will remain in escrow.
Possible uses could be co-owned Bank nodes , Lending stimulant or even burn part of it. All that will have to wait until we have a successful launch of the basic banking.
Thank you for your response.
So, on the 31st, masternodes will be released on the main net? And at this point in time, they will not be capable of banking functions, only fee collection?
Actually, the delay until the 31st is so that we can enable basic banking.
what we are working on now is a secure internal messaging system that will allow node communication. While users can use it for everyday secure messaging, there will be forms in the wallet that you can fill out and send a specially formatted message to a Bank node and vice versa.
The one draw back we will fix in the next update is the very manual way it is done. Example :-
Client A -- trust rating 6 credit rating 5.3 requires a 30000 BCR loan to bootstrap a new asset on our blockchain (i'll explain this later)
so he/she sends a formatted message :
" Request : Loan ,Amount : 30000 BCR , Address: XXCLIENTSADDRESSXX to: XXBANKNODEADDRESSXX"
To BN01
In the current system, the owner of BN01 will have to look up their address and view the trust rating.if they wish they can communicate further with Client A and maybe try hammer out a deal. if they agree, then BN01 sends a formatted message
" Approved : Loan ,Amount : 30000 BCR , Address: XXBANKNODEADDRESSXX to :XXCLIENTSADDRESSXX "
These records will be kept and will be used at conclusion of business or in the unlikely case, dispute resolution.
In the upgrade that will come later Banks will have lists of trusted users and custom settings. for example, in my BN i would set automatic trust for addresses belonging to those who have been supporting the project from the start. With a limit of say 500 BCR. This means when they send a request, it will be opened and processed by the client without need of any input from me.
So yeah, just give us a bit more time and you'll see a lot in the coming few days.