Since Symbiont is funding Counterparty and says it's a 'core aspect' of their toolkit, I doubt it's 'nearing a standstill'.

Can you clarify this a bit, it's getting confusing.  So if we own a satoshicard asset we can only use it in your game but you also just said, "The database can be modified and altered or even shutted down by the game studio. You don't have full ownership of the magic sword." So I can own the satoshicard but only use it in games that you sanction/approve?  

The game is played like any other game. You don't "play" on the blockchain.
We are using the blockchain to store game asset and thats the main difference with other games. When you purchase lets say a "magic sword" in Dragon&Dragon (fictive name) this magic sword is stored in the game database. The database is fully controlled by the game developper. The database can be modified and altered or even shutted down by the game studio. You don't have full ownership of the magic sword.
In spells of Genesis your magic sword is stored on bitcoin blockchain. This means you are free to do whatever you want with the asset, give, sell, exchange etc. No one can take the asset from you unless they control your private key

If Counterparty team keeps the current pace, I think it will be overtaken sooner or later.

How many new coins do these federated/centralized miners mine every day?

since it doesnt have multisig and also not compatible with bitcoin RPC, MGW wont work for it.
there would need to be some sort of custom gateway for this and that is not currently one of my projects

Released may be a bad term for that.  THOSE factoid never come back, but the federated servers that process the entries will get a block reward.  So in effect, they are release, but it is really new factoids.  The inflation is meant to counter the deflation of destroying factoids.  Entry credit price (per factoid) varies inversely to market price.  That is supposed to be pegged to market price.  The market just became active, so that isn't automated yet.  It will be by the time the whole system (all federated servers, etc) is released.  Cheap factoids will mean few Entry Credit per.  Expensive factoids buy many entry credits.

That was my understanding.  We need clarification on this.

How do factoids get sent back to the protocol? Is it a kind of burn?

No. The Entry Credits are burned. Entry Credits are non transferable. They can only be used to buy entries. But when they DO buy entries, the Factoid in the protocol that was used to buy the Entry Credits is released.

My understanding is that the Energy Credits are burned. However, the Facotoms used to buy them are released to the Factom Nodes sort of like a block reward.

Funny to see all the discussion about the amount of coins, as if this is what is going to really determined FACTOM's actual market value. There is no way to determine this right now until the tech starts being used by countries, companies or private individuals.

I've been using gentoo for years. Now, to save time, I'm using mostly ubuntu.

I tend to prefer to build programs myself; most of the times the linux binary is not available anyway (and there are reasons for this).

Thanks, I'll wait for the global test network, then.
Hopefully the software will be easy to build if one, like me, uses linux and doesn't rely on precompiled binaries.

I searched there. But I did not find an answer for it.

Any predictions for when it will be released?

Viva thanks for your enthusiasm

We are going to issue statement every month (if time and ressources allow it) about BitCrystals we received.
But in any case blockchain is transparent so everything is auditable.

The sales are going pretty good I have to say. And we are planning to continue with a constant growth.
All the BitCrystals incomes from the bot are forwarded to our wallets. BitCrystals stays there until we publish the report. When we publish the report we move half to the burn address and half to our company wallet. If you don't want to wait the report you can audit theses address

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The import process does not sweep them into a new address.  They are still valuable unless you actively send the factiods to a new address in your wallet.

do not publish them unless the balance shows zero when you do a "factom-cli balances"

If you receive factoids to your wallet (outside of the one from koinify), and delete the wallet, there is no recovery.

There is a 1 to 1 relationship between the 12 words and a Factom key.  That key can be present in multiple wallets.
https://github.com/FactomProject/FactomDocs/tree/master/token_sale

The wallets themselves generate their own keys based on a seed.  If you receive factoids to your wallet (outside of the one from koinify), and delete the wallet, there is no recovery.

The wallet has a deterministic seed, but recovery from old backups is not programmed into the wallet yet.  you should backup the wallet after every new address is created.