It is remarkable quiet here considering the latest developments in price 

Please explain what you don't like on the presale model.
Btw we're redesigning it.

which specific kind of POS? there's a whole zoo

which specific kind of POS? there's a whole zoo

To be honest, I also reconsider plain old POW, counting on the ASICs not to bite from zennet's computing resources.
I talked with HMC about his "kill switch" and he explained that in order to restart the chain, one would have to invest the resources needed to create the original chain. Of course, it's much more difficult on BTC-like POW.

From what I understand, and the reason I mentioned it here, is that tendermint confirmations times are limited only by the bandwidth of the network, for example, with about 10,000 validators = about  1min confirmations times and also unlike dpos doesn't rely on having trust in the 101 delegates.

"On the other hand existing proof-of-stake protocols do
not have a well defined intrinsic penalty for instigators of a double-spend attack.
This is commonly called, ironically, the “nothing at stake” problem. Newer protocols
like the BitShares delegated-proof-of-stake protocol attempt to address this problem
by placing the role of ranked-delegate at stake [3], but security is dependant on
the extrinsic ability of stakeholders to accurately predict the future performance of
delegates."


Reference on confirmation time about 19:00 mark
http://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/beyond-bitcoin-21-consensus-without-mining

you will definitely notice when the sale begins

The usual   

no. good idea.
btw there is an old podcast here http://insidehpc.com/2014/08/radio-free-hpc-looks-xennet-initiative/