can someone explain the federated server "system" - who elects them? - why are they limited to 32 etc. pp?

Please, are you here for the taste of a discussion or are you here to solve a problem?

After 120 days you can use funds not claim for charge back and you can freeze those funds claim for chargeback (till 540 days). Nothing special.

Everdream soft have to wait 120 days for charge backs, then use free fiat money in non reversible transaction and freeze the part claim for chargeback.

Not a too complicated algorithm.

Anyway, it is predictable that the most of the transacion will not generate chargebacks, so everdream soft could work with a 120 days rolling "chargeback fund", a % of the net proceed for future charge back.

I tell you again: It is a basic work for a dumb risk manager.

No.

The time is from 7 to 120 days.
http://blog.unibulmerchantservices.com/visa-chargeback-reason-codes-and-time-limits/

 https://chargebacks911.com/chargeback-time-limit/

Sorry, i don't think that you understand the way SOG link between fiat money and bitcrystals.

Yodark saw that cards sold whit fiat money aren't crypto asset, but that is possible to convert those centralized asset it in crypto asset after a certain time (... when any charge back claim is not even possible).

We are talking about a certain % of buyer that "probably" could issue some charge back (numbers are know for every single category of good and services)

The answer is : probably not, the reason is simply because AppStore and Google purchase are reversible while blockchain transactions are irreversible. The question is still open now as we are working to figure out the best option for that. For now we are focusing on blockchain only card issuance. When it will come to large public purchase AppStore, a lead could be to allow people to store their purchase off-chain only. After certain time allowing people to convert their asset into a digital asset.
Another lead is to partnership with a bitcoin transmitter company (cicle, coinbase...) to directly offer Bitcoin or BCY purchase in the game without using the store system

But still this is still open to discussion in any case we are going to have this open and transparent.

"This brings the cost to enter data back to the expected $0.001/KiB"

So if I have my math right, that is roughly a dollar per megabyte of storage, so to store a duplicate of the Bitcoin blockchain on the Bitcoin blockchain would cost roughly 46,000 dollars?

Wait. So they have offered to give you free BitCrystals, are you are attacking them for delaying it a little bit. and the BCY is FREE ?
You guys never fail to amaze me  

Also, Do you realise this is a TCG (Trading Card Game) ? What are they going to concentrate on, if not for the cards?

What do you mean by "project"?

I was a guest on Robert's Counterparty radio show where I covered the current technical progress we're making on the core Counterparty software: https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/xcp-weekly-update-18-robby-dermody-and-jop-hartog

To that end, we released 9.51.4 a few weeks back: https://github.com/CounterpartyXCP/counterparty-lib/releases/tag/v9.51.4
It has major performance updates.

Just today, we pushed the "undolog" changes to the "develop" branch (https://github.com/CounterpartyXCP/counterparty-lib/commits/develop), which will make reorg processing almost instantaneous (where before, it could take 15-45 minutes in some cases). This is another major improvement for the core counterparty software, and should be released to "master" within a few weeks, pending some additional testing.

We also made some significant improvements to counterblock, on the "fixes1" branch (https://github.com/CounterpartyXCP/counterblock/commits/fixes1). Those are undergoing testing and will be pushed to master once ready. Counterblock is used by Counterwallet.

And, we are testing counterparty-server against bitcoind 0.11.1, which has been looking good.

Most of this is the unsexy behind-the-scenes work, but they are major strides in helping Counterparty to be a stable and solid option for building a service on, or using in general. For example, Counterwallet stability is much improved over what it was (still not 100% of the way there, but moving in that direction), and the "undolog" updates are very useful for several industry players, like Tokenly.

We have some initial conversations going to possibly identify more long term help that could work on other services, Counterwallet enhancements, etc. This is all very preliminary at this point however, but worth bringing up.

The acquisition of leads to both incorporate Nxt into real world applications/businesses.