[PRE-ANN] Manta - DAG & zkSNARKs - Fast, Fee-less, Private Cryptocurrency

[Konos]

How come your roadmap lists "Whitepaper & official website" twice, both for February and for July?

[weroij]

Will ICO rate be the same $100/10500 MANTA? Will USA be restricted from ICO?

[Luksx1]

Will ICO rate be the same $100/10500 MANTA? Will USA be restricted from ICO?

Manta doesn't have ICO.

[MantaCurrency]

How come your roadmap lists "Whitepaper & official website" twice, both for February and for July?

We've fixed it!

[derickonfire]

Any idea what kind of rewards we're looking at after solving one captcha? What kind of rate can we expect to earn when solving captchas?

We're looking at something similar to RaiBlocks' rate, such as the faucet giving out a max of 17,000 MANTA per hour to all users combined.

As for rewards per solve, it would be dependent on how many solves have been done in the current hour, although we predict the reward to be ~6-10 MANTA per 100 solves.

That means the faucet will go on for about 245 days? 75 percent of supply is 100m, with 408 000 given out everyday.

My apologies, I meant to type 170,000.

170000 per hour is about 2800 per minute.

The reward would be about 10 Manta per 100 solved captchas, so 0.1 Manta per captcha.

A human could probably solve an average of 4 (non-trivial) captchas per minute, so you get 0.4 Manta per minute per person.

So, 2800 Manta per minute means that 7000 people would have to solve captchas every minute, for an entire month (or whatever it's going to last).

The verify: 7000 people * 4 captchas per minute * 60 minutes in an hour * 10 Manta per captcha / 100 captchas = 168000 (close to 170000 Manta per hour)

If we presume that all these people would work 8 hours every day, we have 21000 distinct people who would do only this for a month.

Therefore, the average would be 6300 Manta per person (133 millions / 21000 people).

Considering the stated rate of about 1 cent per Manta, a person would have to work for a month to get the equivalent of 63 USD.

For those who don't intend to solve captchas for a month to get the equivalent of 63 USD, the question is: will there be an exchange available at the start?

This seems very tedious, frankly. Almost ridiculous.

Would there instead be a way to only use the captcha once every hour or so? I've seen other faucets do this, they require an account or verification of sorts to best avoid spamming (nothing is perfect of course)

Maybe a few options, something like:
1 per hour
10 per 12 hours
18 per 24 hours

Either way, this whole faucet thing reeks of gotcha mobiles games, waking up in the middle of the night to min-max your spendable points.

Surely, there is a better way?

Maybe the captcha itself can only come online once a day with a set allocation,

ie every day at noon the captcha wallet is refilled with 10000 manta, or however many - to ensure that the captcha will 'sell-out' everyday (maybe over a couple hours)

[Levontres]

What is the total amount of coins? and when will be available your official website?

[derickonfire]

What is the total amount of coins? and when will be available your official website?

133248290

the same as Raiblocks, which you should invest in if you haven't already.

Super confident in XRB, that's why I'm interested in Manta and hope you guys pull this off.


To the devs:
I send a donation via XRB and a follow up message with my eth address,

thanks.

[govis]

Made a donation to your ETH address, please check PM. Good luck - I hope that your project will be a successful one

[Kamlanaut]

Hello,


Are donations still up?

Can you confirm that you received my donation pls

[sqbit]

Hey everyone!

We're making a quick update post to notify you all of a change regarding the process of receiving MANTA for donators.

Due to many requests, we've decided to utilize an ERC-20 Token on the Ethereum Network, with the conversion of 1 MantaToken "MNTA" being swap-able for 1 MANTA when wallets are released. We will make sure the swapping process is as simple and easy to understand as possible.

If you've donated, to receive your MantaToken's, simply PM us your Ethereum address, and we'll send the appropriate MantaToken's, as well as instructions as to how to view your custom token.

We recommend using MyEtherWallet as it's the easiest and simplest way to view and receive your MantaToken's.

Note that due to potential PM restrictions, we may not be able to reply as fast as we'd like to, though we'll make sure everyone receives their MantaToken's as well as the proper instructions to utilizing them.

As for an update in regards to Manta itself, our network tests have shown promising results, and we're working to get Manta as close to completion as possible.

Best Regards,

Brian, Jason, and Nikhil

Manta Dev Team

Good to know that there is a progress, that the team is alive and working. Sent my eth address to you, guys, and wishing you all the best. The dag with the privacy, feeless, it would something really unique, if you manage to deliver it safely.

[EKowalski]

When faucets starts?

[steelslo]

I sent a PM with an GateHub ETH address on which I requsted that you send MNTA token. But I noticed that MNTA is not supported on GateHub so the transaction will be lost. I am asking you please don't send MNTA on that adress. I will send you new ETH address on which you can send MNTA. I hope I am no too late?

[Benezim]

will there be an exchange available at the start

There‘s always EtherDelta for ERC20 tokens 

[MantaCurrency]

Hello,


Are donations still up?

Can you confirm that you received my donation pls

Yes, donations are still up, and I can confirm we've received your donation and have sent the MantaTokens 

When faucets starts?

We aim to have the faucet around mid-March.

[Thecker]

We can find on Google a site called manta . exchange, any relation to your project? 

I already received my tokens, thank you, faucet distribution has a common characteristic, it generates an active community.

[missingforever]

I received the tokens. Thank you very much.
I'll be donating more when the project proceeds further!
Wishing you good luck MANTA Team!

[klebernet]

could confirm my donation, not his using the pastebin.

https://etherscan.io/tx/0x764a1247ad444410e8850cd83f9d133f4fbd0a3a83cd01cd947d67b5904aea67

Please excuse me, I'm using the translator, and I could not put my donation in pastebin.

[Kamlanaut]

Thank you very much Manta Team!

I received my tokens promptly. Looking to donate more with the official Whitepaper and Website release.

[EKowalski]

Hy, i like you project, the minimum for donations is $100? or can I donate smaller values, and gain tokens in proportion to the amount donated?

Can I receive the tokes on myetherwallet? or I need to create another specific wallet?

[zaid34108]

Sent you guys a donation yesterday and pm'ed, but still haven't gotten any response back or been sent the coins. Thanks.