We’ve already received quite a lot of applications for the campaign within such short time, it seems that the competition is going quite fierce. Meanwhile, there also a lot of questions about this campaign from the community. We gathered some high frequent-asked question and here are the detailed explanations for them.

There was a live held in the Chinese community, Tingting and the product manager Huicong was invited to answer all the related questions. You may refer to the link for the video clip if you are interested in the Chinese Q&A. We also made it a text version here:

Q: Have the developers looked into projects such as EOS and others to learn from their mistakes?

A: Yes, we have checked most mistakes from other projects to avoid them from reoccurring on Bottos.

Different from EOS and other projects, Bottos main net will run a transition period with enough tests, the tests will be maintained by Bottos team and the Bottos community.

We have been working hard on the security of Bottos chain, meanwhile, we welcome all developers who are interested in Bottos code review, if you have any feedback please feel free to let us know.

Q: What are the most notable blockchain constitutions and management mechanisms Bottos uses to avoid manipulation of voting?

A: The vote rule will be written in the smart contract and CANNOT be changed.

Voter can ONLY send their VOTEs (AKA VOTE tokens) to nominated candidates.

The smart contract will close voting between voters, which means, voters won’t commit successful transactions to other voters.

The smart contract will close voting between candidates, which means, candidates won’t commit successful transactions to other voters.

Q: Will I be rewarded for participating in the voting process by submitting my votes?

A: Yes every valid vote will be rewarded with air drop DTO according to certain ratio. (1:10)

Reference：https://medium.com/@bottos_ai/bottos-node-campaign-is-about-to-launch-are-you-ready-for-that-bb3154039f08

Q: Will I need to register for the voting token snapshot?

Wallet addresses of with BTO position over 1000 will receive BTO VOTE token, you don’t have to register.

Q: I missed node candidate campaign sign-up when can I sign up again as a candidate?

Yes, if you have enough staked BTO token, and have the ability to run a hyper-node with the corresponding hardware (see the table below) and an operation team. You will have chances to run as a node candidate when the main net runs officially.

(requirements for different nodes)

Q:Will there be a limit or a maximum to how much vote tokens a single address can get?

A: No, the VOTE token number depends on the balance of your BTO position.

Q: Can candidates vote for themselves?

A: Of course they can vote for themselves, but voting between different candidates will be blocked by the smart contract.

Q: For candidates who did not get enough votes do they have higher priority as backup node over future candidates?

A: No, priority of the future candidates depends on their staked balance and the vote they get during block producing.

What if a candidate has an unfair advantage over the other candidates?

There is no so call unfair advantage, the campaign requires certain quantity of BTO pledge, server specification, contribution to the community and ability of the operation team.

Candidates will be regarded as qualified for the preliminary round if they reach the requirement.

Q:What’s the difference between a producing node and a non-producing node? Do they have differences on the benefit?

A: There will be reward for producing nodes when blocks are produced. Non-producing nodes and backup nodes get reward from the foundation as well.

Being a producing node gets reward of 26 million DTO a year if blocks can be produced constantly.

Q: Are technical support team required for a producing node?

A: Yes, a producing node requires maintenance from technical support team. Bottos will provide training if needed. Technical support outsourcing is also recommended if you don’t have enough experiences. The most important thing is to make sure it won’t affect block producing, certain punishment will be carried if the affect happens.

Q: I’m not professional in techniques but my BTO position meets the requirement of the campaign, Can I get reward as well? Is there any way for ordinary BTO holders gain reward?

A: You can register as a candidate if you have enough BTO and outsource the technical maintenance work if you are selected as a producing node. A producing node get reward for producing blocks.

Q:Will there be a guide for the node campaign? With detail of each process and corresponding benefit.

Yes, we’re planning to do that, please stay tuned.

Q: Can I sign up as an individual or team? I have BTO holding friends, we have plenty of BTO all together, and can I sign up as an individual candidates.

A: You and your team can sign up under your name, but the required number of BTO has to be pledged in the same wallet address.

Q: How is the Korean market going?

A: The Korean market is running steady, our partner will pay a visit to Korea this July. Meanwhile, we have good connections with some Korean companies. There was a study mission visit in Bottos office paid by a group of Korean enterprises early this morning.

Also, the member of Korean community is increasing constantly, it might reach 4000 people by the end of July. Our volunteers is doing great in Korea, they helped to build community and lectures in college. We appreciate their great contribution.

Q:Will there be more strategic cooperation beside BTS?

A: Yes, there will be a conference about strategic cooperation in Zhongguancun Beijing, this August.

Q: More information about cooperated companies and the development of DApps on Bottos chain?

1. Our Main net code is now open source for all the developers. DApps could be run on Bottos chain. There are over 70 FORKS include bottos main net, wallets and back ends. There also some developers who want to transfer their DApps to our chain.

2. We are running a foundation ABCD, aims at investing or incubating related program on Blockchain, AI and data. Cooperation with a Nordic venture club is about to start aiming at attracting more programs on bottos chain. China domestic investors will also introduce good resources to Bottos.

3. There is going to be more technical meetups or trainings, the video will be sent to colleges.

4. The value of DTO is based on the quantity and quality of data. The more data being mined, the more DTO it produces, the higher its value goes.

We recommend bottos chain for AI companies and data mining.

Q:How is the official community going?

A: The community is running steady. There are more and more active users joining the community, we received a lot of valued suggestions which are greatly appreciated.

Q: When will the data collection function release? Are there enough data demand companies on the chain?

A: The data collection function is under development, and will be released in a few days. More and more data demands have been sent to Bottos and we are ready for the development.

Q:What will you do with the cheatings in the community?

A: Bottos team has discovered a small amount of energy power and credit cheatings, which is unfair to other users. We will apply adjustments in the community.

The upper limit of energy power adding throughout invitation task would be 500, other tasks won’t be affected.

Q: When will DTO be able to transfer in exchanges?

A: It’s under development.

Q: The main net is now ready for open source, when will Bottos wallet be available?

A: The wallet is currently available for recharging and Bottos main net currency. Other functions will be added after the main net running officially. The Bottos 3.0 Data Market Wallet has been released on Windows and Mac OS, mobile version will be running an internal test by the end of July.

Now we are running a node campaign, the main net will be started when nodes are elected, there will be a wallet mapping on the main net, BTO will be converted from ERC20 token to BTO main net token.

Developers can have wallet apps developed based on api of Bottos application chain.

Q: Will there be notifications when the post is replied?

A: The function is officially online.

Q: We hope that we can get the latest announcement directly from the community app.

A: Very good suggestion and we are happy to let everyone know that the function is now online.

You can find the latest information on the sticky post.

Check the pic below.

(Sticky post in the community)

Q: When will the lockup released for the Bottos team and co-founders ?

A: 12% will be released by the end of the year according to the white paper.

Q: Will there be different levels of rewarding for BTO lock-up holders for different period of holding duration?

A: Very good suggestion, the reward will be optimized in the future airdrop batches.

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