Emissions have not started yet, they will start when the network is declared persistent.
This currently is “random rewards” being paid to nodes return quotes to their random file quoting
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Does the random rewards follow that schedule or is it set? Do you know the amount?
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See post above. This is an interim “random rewards” until network is declared persistent.
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No clue, it just seems to be a set amount twice daily spread out across the nodes that respond correctly and paid twice daily to the account the nodes are using
I wish more details were given beyond the couple of times it was mentioned in relation to the network not being persistent yet
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Not strictly free, you have to be an active participant running working nodes helping the network.
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It’s not free. Newly issued tokens take their value from everyone else’s already issued tokens. Thus making the cost to upload higher.
I really wish all this money printing would go away, it’s unproductive and scammy … and will only facilitate a cascade collapse scenario.
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well yeah, but, even free btw can destroy the entire marketcap if large amounts are dumped into the liq. pool. If i had the hardware i would spawn up 100k nodes and sell 95% for profits, until there is no incentive left. That is risk free, passive income
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no, they do the same as it’s newly created coin, so dilutes the value held by everyone who already owns BTC. However, with BTC, it’s small relative new emissions and when it’s done in the future, there will still remain a fee paid for transactions to miners. We have that fee for service too as uploaders pay the network for the service - that’s all it needs to be. Creating new tokens just injures all who hold tokens, so it may incentivize nodes (which we don’t need to do as there will always be enough with the system we have in place), but the token creation disincentivizes users as it devalues their token holdings - and we desperately need more users.
So it’s creating another imbalance in our network and offers nothing we need in return.
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Are people getting airdrops yet? I haven’t seen any confirmation of that yet. I’m waiting to convert my MAID until I see that the whole process is going smoothly.
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Yes! There were confirmations in Discord. And everything went very smoothly for me. The first 5,000 arrived properly on Friday. Now I’ve converted the rest, and they should appear tomorrow in my MetaMask
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Cool, I found @DavidMc0’s post and he seems to be happy.
Will start my conversions soonish.
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If it’s risk free money, there is always a party that is going to maximize profit for as long as he can. Yes, you can have an investment strategy on the side, but the point is, if there is risk free money, someone is going to take it.
It is dangerous if the emission rate or free token distrubtion is at a higher rate than the liquidity that comes from buyers, a single party can destroy the entire marketcap of a project/drain the entire liquidity pool
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ok, inhaling and exhaling 
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What I would like to add is that the emission really isn’t devaluating anyones assets. We have a fixed supply and knew that months ago. Short term, yes, it’s going to surpress prices a little, but so is having 250 million tokens sitting in a wallet waiting for something to happen with. Those coins are hanging over the market and will surpress prices untill they’re distributed, just like the 200 million from shareholders releasing over the next 6 months. For the long term viability of the project those coins need to be redistributed one way or the other before the market can find its way up.
Additionally, getting people involved in mining at this stage is also very important, when emissions where low, people new to the space couldn’t make a single ant by running 10 nodes which was also a bad experience. I just wish that big node operators use common sense, spread nodes across diffetent places and don’t try to fully maximize profits. Leave some for others which is best for the project and so for your own long term profitibility.
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There are people that already have this hardware and will deligate resources to whatever provides them the highest roi, it is simple game theory.
I do not disagree with you necessarily.
Example:
i bought well over 100k maid on bittrex just before they closed down for 3/4 cents a piece and sold them 24h later for well over 5x the price by a simple arbitrage. If i remember correct, it was about 40k profits, risk free. Now, i could have waited a couple months and sold them for more, but it was a relative risk free arbirtrage, so i just decided to take profits right there. Meanwhile, i did hold emaid on the side for my investment bag so i would not loose out on long term gains
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I do not know if running nodes currently is profitable or not, i was just making a point that if it is, somebody will abuse it. That is a problem given the small liquidity pool
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Yes it is. I dont have a single server running at a loss. Obviously that is the goal.
Anyway, its unbalanced. Over incentivised and I am signing out now.
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Abusing makes it sound like it’s something illegal or immortal… It’s just the free market and what is being incentivised…
… It’s possibly very unfortunate ANT price wise… But it’s the pretty logical consequence of the current incentives and that ant is not tradable and can be used to cover running costs immediately… And the goal of many nodes and fast growth seems to be supported big time 
… A pity I don’t have a datacenter of my own to do something like this xD…
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