On November 27th, 2019, the Nebulas team including founder Hitters Xu and lead developer Larry took to Telegram and answered the communities questions about the design of Nebulas’ Proof of Devotion consensus mechanism.

Prior to the live AMA, the Nebulas community asked their questions on the Nebulas subreddit at: https://www.reddit.com/r/nebulas/comments/dzlkz1/live_ama_with_hitters_xu_on_november_27th_ask/

For those who missed the live event, here are the asked questions and answers:

From: m5j

Question: How long do you think we will be staying at 51 nodes before opening it up to more?

Answer: It all depends on the situation after we launch PoD. Since we have the governance committee, people can propose to increase the number of candidate list if the demand is high. The governance committee will make the decision.

From: m5j

Question: Can you give us more information on how the governance nodes will work?

Answer: The governance committee(nodes) are selected from last month which are the most active 51 nodes. They will review and vote for all the proposals provided by GoNebulas management team. In the meantime, they are the person to decide which project to fund, and how much to fund. Please note, firstly, the decision will only be made if it receive ⅔ of approval. secondly, the node who voted will receive governance rewards. However, the node will be prohibited from enrolling into consensus committee for a certain period of time if there are two absences from governance duty consequently.

From: satoshibytes

Question: Do you see PoD evolving from its current presentation and if so, what type of changes do you see possible?

Answer: There are some significant differences, firstly, we lower the bar for normal community members, secondly, we encourage more team to join the competition. thirdly, we bind the consensus committee with the governance committee, and the last, the governance committee take more responsibility and have more rights within the Nebulas community.

From: satoshibytes

Question: In addition to NAX, will there be any smart contract to control NAS that a community member wants to contribute to a node thereby decentralizing trust of the node operator?

Answer: Yes, it is possible, it is open for discussion. All nodes operator can provide either centralized platform or decentralized smart contract method to enroll and make benefits to their voters.

From: junhokkkk

Question: When you were elected chairman, you said you care about market capitalization, but now you fall to 141st. There is also growing doubts about community rewards in recent years, and there is no specific mention of the buyback program. But we believe in you. Please give a clear answer.

Answer: As mentioned above, in PoD mechanism, governance committee have the authority to approve or not for the projects funding. If you have any great proposal and ideas, feel free to post on GoNebulas. If your proposal truly can make a positive impact on Nebulas ecosystem, the governance committee will reward you.

Referring to the buyback program, please wait for the official announcements. Since we announced the buyback program in June, it indeed made some progress, however, we also found a lot of problems. We’ll make an conclusion to share with everyone. The purpose for buyback program is to make a sustainable development for Nebulas ecosystem, so I hope the community members do not pay too much attention on this, but pay attention on how to make Nebulas a long term development and more competitive in this industry.

From: pam_your_fractals

Question: Is there any plans to integrate Nebulas with the mainstream browser plugins? One key to success is, IMHO, having a simple way for average users to operate with the blockchain using the already existing extensions, like Metamask.

Will Metamask accept to operate with the Nebulas blockchain?



Answer: This is a good idea, we encourage you to submit your proposal in Go Nebulas platform, we would like to sponsor this kind of proposals. Please provide some examples, how other project integrate with metamask when submit the proposal.



There’s also another Metamask fork project on Nebulas now, is it a similar idea with yours? https://go.nebulas.io/project/267

From: pam_your_fractals

Question: Also, are there plans to implement an analog to the ERC-1151 standard? Having both fungible and non-fungible tokens available at once is critical for game development inside Nebulas blockchain.



Answer： Yes, it’s possible, did you post this proposal? https://go.nebulas.io/proposal/173

However, we didn’t set it as a project immediately, because we would focus on the most necessary and urgent projects at first. Your proposal would possibly can be discussed again when the governance mechanism launch.