thank you

Q: is it possible to have a slack channel ?
A: will do

Q: any update regarding the Escrow ?
A: announcing today, when morning comes to SanFrancisco

Q: why do u think people will trust your code with no big/real names involved in the project ? like Chrome etc...can ur team members post some videos?
A: we're preparing videos and trying to attract big names; nothing to boast about this week, though.

Q: what type of ads will the users view ? banner , pup-under ?
A: since we're targeting the RTB part of the industry, it mostly banners.

Q: do something ? what do u want to do with the mass weapon ?
A: We receive quite a few questions like "what do you have to do with crypto community?", "is it moral what you do?", etc. So we answer that the best thing one can do—being a libertarian and disliking "big corporations" —is to support Bitcoin. Not hacking government email. Not replacing Google's ads with your own using an adblocking software. Supporting Bitcoin in any way possible makes progress faster. Bitcoin is the only capable weapon for all good against all bad.

The price of the certain stake (i.e. how many bitcoins is 1% of Mass) will be determined after the completion of the ICO period, on December 2nd, 2016.

Thanks for bringing up this topic. We at Mass think more choice is better than less. If you do not want to "sell yourself" then continue using your current method (but know that others are profiting from your data crumbs and attention). The monetization aspect of Mass is but one part. It also improves the web-browsing experience. You will see ads, but they will be for interesting products and services because you told it what you are into. Mass can not only show you relevant ads but it can also help you acquire said goods with a steady trickle of cash!

But more importantly, we prefer to support practical ways of withstanding the pressure of the current establishment. We recently witnessed that heroism isn’t quite productive. People like Assange or Snowden end up locked. Only a mass weapon—like Bitcoin—can do something. But instead of supporting Bitcoin, lots of libertarian-minded people waste their energy supporting altcoins. That obviously slows Bitcoin’s development. 

Similar situation with advertising giants who “steal” our data. We prefer to cooperate with them and offer them additional options that would allow them to switch from stealing to buying. Other approaches—like Brave’s—are paved on top of the strong conflict. We doubt that Brave has any real power to stand against the industry. It is hard to explain what makes people enter a battle they are doomed to lose considering the current balance of power.

Adding the Chinese version soon

The one-time issuance principle guarantees the growth of value as long as the ecosystem doesn’t stagnate. Unlike the most of  the “app coins”, Mass Coin has an application in its core that is in high demand.
More here: https://blog.mass.network/mass-network-economic-model/

The rule is that only member and up are currently allowed to join.

On the contrary, the model is very stable and leal-threat-proof.

Please read this if you have 3 minutes: https://blog.mass.network/mass-network-economic-model/

It only has been done to reduce the divisibility need. Think of it as 1 trillion satoshis, doesn't look that large that way.

Answered the first question above, but not sure if I understand the second one. Do you mean wallet? There are Colu enabled wallets, there will be more, for instance, Mycelium is going to support Colu soon.
The software for the ad application themselves? There'll be several modules. Consumer part is
1) Mass browser/extension;
2) Payment system emulator (instant off-chain payments; private keys and signature; to be replaced with LN);
3. User data processing service;
4. Encrypted data storage;
5. User verification center.

Concerning the modules for businesses they also include payment parts; the whole thing breaks down to several sub-modules. Mass aims to avoid conflicts with the existing advertising infrastructure. Real-time bidding industry (RTB)  infrastructure already constitutes a huge portion of the digital advertising sector, and it is growing. Mass would like to improve this system by adding transparency as well as a way for web users to participate in an unobtrusive, profitable way.

RTB is essentially a continuous stream of instantaneous auctions that determine which ads are shown to which users on a website. Every time you load a site, supply-side places ‘asks’ for available ads and demand-side places bids for single user ad-impressions. Mass affects the packaging of data of some consumers and offers easy-to-use tools for all RTB participants who would like to upgrade to include Mass Network consumers into their revenues.

Data is the single most important element supporting the RTB value chain. Data variables include, but are not limited to, purchase intentions, household demographics, and behavioral patterns. Mass enriches the data with an entirely new dimension of user-survey based parameters.

When a Mass-enabled user visits a website, the web server delivers some code (Signed Tags) to RTB-and-Mass-enabled market participants—SSP or DMP. SSPs (supply-side platforms) allow publishers to select demand partners (i.e., who gets access to inventory such as ad network or ad exchange). Of course, SSPs manage supply selection, i.e. availability, and pricing.

SSPs were historically set to managing many types of ad inventory levels, so adding Mass specifics is nothing revolutionary for these organizations. Take one of the largest SSP in the USA for example. PubMatic’s’ Ad Price Prediction service accepts bids even from non-RTB enabled demand sources such as ad exchanges, ad networks, and direct-to-agency orders. Any bid wins only if it has the highest effective demand-side price.

The "effective price" parameter normalizes the Mass-price-scale to an ordinary one. It is the way for two price standards to сo-exist. One price is a usual one that depends on user/publisher qualities and the other price takes into consideration that part of the payment has to be forwarded to the consumer. In fact, by the time the data packet starts to travel, the Blockchain payment is not confirmed but a side-chain secondary level payment (such as “Lighting Network”) is already implemented.

By normalizing this double computation, Mass data will represent quite an upscale audience, in general. That is especially remarkable because within the RTB framework supply-side platforms have been developing primarily as algorithm-driven systems used by online ad sellers to monetize unsold ad inventory. Sellers used to employ SSPs mostly to increase the value of indirect ad inventory through yield optimization techniques.

Now, Mass-enabled SSPs provide sellers with opportunities not only to pinpoint and bundle specific segments of audiences but sell individual ad impressions at premium rates to premium consumers. Typically that can be achieved only by direct ad sales (in-house ad sales division working with ad agency).

Data management platforms (DMPs) mine online user metrics via cookie IDs or pixel tags obtained from a user’s web browser. DMPs are normally expected to adhere to self-regulatory practices established for online data collection and supply consumer privacy controls in order to maintain trust with agencies and consumers alike. All of the major DMPs offer opt-out tools for users. In contrast, Mass-user-data is always protected and can only be released via micropayment (in some case, with a certified promise of the payment). Instead of a primitive opt-out switch, Mass offers its users a complete UI to control the data flow. Thus, consumers may move themselves up in the user-level stats indicated by the Mass SSP tool. SSP operators will clearly see the accumulated effect of Mass-enabled consumers in terms of revenue acquired by an SSP.  

45% until September 16.

Makes sense. Noted.

Colu.com token which is similar to a Counterparty or Omni token. 

Few things:
(1) ADZ is yet another "big corporations is evil" plot. Maybe so. But that doesn't work. Even for bitcoin currency yet. Mass is an opportunist, in a political sense. We help big corps.
(2) ADZ plans to REPLACE ads, i.e. put something to where something was replaced. That's stealing. It's not gonna work. Neither for Brave, not for anyone else. Big corps still have guts to put the violators to jail. Mass offers solution to the rightful owners of blocked impressions.
(3) ADZ is a blockchain clone. That's a waste of energy. No blockchain but Bitcoin has proven to be viable. There's NONE! ADZ will join the same dead pool, statistically. Mass doesn't mess with that. Mass uses Bitcoin. 

It's on the edge, you're right. But if you look at the comment right next to yours, you'd see why not more than 10^12. LN implementation for colored coins is still unclear. Colu's on top of this; we'll follow their lead in this aspect. The essentials for the issuance won't change, though.

Q: Do you have sample/ test software on Github?  Why?
A: Soon we will.

Q: Why haven't you created video with real people form you team yet? I mean like Google hangout.
A: We should and we will; didn't occur to us.

Q: What is the minimum funding goal to create browser extension? Mass browser release?
A: It's a two parameter thing: zero if we have infinite time and infinite amount if we have zero time. The current roadmap corresponds with the resources that we already possess.

Q: What will you do if you only rise 100 BTC or 300 BTC or 500BTC? 
A: Same thing as now. A Smaller amount will consume more time.

Q: Will you return funds if no minimal threshold reached? Or you are going to work for "free", or just abandon this project…? 
A: We'll do it anyway. Those few people who bought Mass coins will be luckier, that's all.

Q: How much are you going to pay to programmers, for marketing, lawyers, etc? 
A: Look. Since we're not selling bonds or shares of a company (we're selling the currency that is the only one to use in Mass system) we decided that we don't have to share our accounting. Now we see that many people don't get the idea and we need to make the accounting transparent. Working on this.

Q: Could you give more details on how you are going to create and maintain a new web browser? Will it be a modified copy from Brave browser?
A: It has nothing to do with Brave; and, yes, the details are to be provided on the coming GitHub page.

Thank you for the marketing advice; will try to make some meaningful explanatory videos. Not sure we can afford to visit crypto conferences at the moment, though

Our economic model differs from typical app.coin one in several aspects: (1)  ICO's share of emission is larger than continuous distribution (aka "mining") one (we have 70/30 ratio when usually it is vise versa); (2) we have a long ICO period since it has different economic sense and we need it as long as possible; (3) larger early-bird discounts because we have more than usual market-making power at the beginning of free trade.

Please note that none of the usual ICO-backed projects have shown any significant success yet. We don't see any project in the entire crypto space that would be a lightning house, an example or role model. Except for bitcoin currency itself. So, we might be right while everybody else is wrong. There's just no way to prove the contrary yet.

More here: https://blog.mass.network/mass-network-economic-model/

yeah, also think the home page is not cool. Need to update.

no, it was there all the time:)