Do we going to know early in time, how bitmart will respond to this airdrop?
Nope but without an official statement by them, then its is extremely wise and urgent that people get their eMAID into a wallet they have the keys for
Do we will know at least when snapshot going to be?
It will be announced, and we will all know together. We will not be told before an announcement.
But since TGE is meant to happen by the end of the month then there potentially is only days before TGE. Upto 7 or 8
Do u think it will be possible to sell emaid on uni after tge?
What happens to eMAID? Will eMAID be delisted at the same time as ANT gets listed? Does eMAID lose all its value, is this guaranteed? I guess eMAID will have to be burned at the same time as the airdrop to avoid any taxable event in the cases where the airdrop is a taxable event (many places), burning is also a taxable event, so if these have same value, then the net gain is zero and there’s no tax, but it’s probably possible for people to mess up the timing here and owe taxes by not burning at the correct time.
How about emaid in a uniswap pool; do they need to be removed before TGE?
Surely Maidsafe team has contacted bitmart about this so that bitmart can warn it’s users to withdraw … or else they will convert for their users? @rusty.spork ??
I can assure you the team has seen this thread and will release additional statements as soon as they can. Until then, we’re all better off by not speculating or spreading wrong information (not saying anyone is tbf).
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Only post that mentioned Omni Core, so I’ll quote it here, with a question.
I am reading that burning MAID from the Omniwallet site and receiving ANT for the appropriate Ethereum address owned by the MAID owner, is possible? For some reason I got it in my head years ago that proving via burning wouldn’t be possible on the Omniwallet site, and that one would be required to have their MAID stored in an Omni Core offline wallet. I do have my Omni Core synced with the blockchain, but if I don’t have to transfer MAID there, I won’t.
If anyone wants to pull their hair out: syncing with Omni Core does work still, except it takes a few weeks, even with high end computers (the program lags even with major CPU), and maybe even some decent internet speed—but I only have high internet speed, not super internet speed, so maybe it could be quicker than a few weeks with the latter.
Why is one a burn and one a snapshot? What’s the technical reasoning behind this?
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Not your keys not your eMAID is the general rule. Your eMAID will need to be in your wallet at TGE. And its becoming urgent to do so, from all indications of TGE by month’s end.
The important thing we were told is that the ANT is sent to the eth address holding the eMAID so if not your address then not your ANT. NOTE: it says to the same wallet (eth address) as your eMAID
Well burning is not done by Omniwallet.org, but rather you sending your MAID to a burn address.
And I gather the ETH address will be contained in the message you sign. I would assume you supply the eth address in that message
To be honest i assumed it was they were aiming for snapshot all around, but due to some issues with OMNI it was changed to sign/burn and eMAID was just left as is because its so easy to do
Is coinbase wallet considered an ETH address?
We haven’t been given a reason yet, but it might not be technical; various exchanges hold MAID (Poloniex over 9m, Bittrex over 2m, HitBTC some, and possibly others) that in some cases rightful owners have not yet been able to get access to, so leaving the door open beyond TGE may be preferable in case future solutions are found for the recovery of the MAID.
But, it would be good to hear if technical reasons are the main driver for this difference.
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It is best to use a hardware wallet connected to MetaMask. Any other wallets supporting the Arbitrum network probably work too, but it’s not worth the risk.
In particular, Coinbase says that they support it, but before it is tested I would not use it:
https://help.coinbase.com/en/wallet/layer2-networks/layer2-networks-and-sidechains
Another reason is that this leaves the token natively on the Bitcoin network, which is a huge advantage for trading because it removes the dangers of bridges. It will also allow people waiting for the Autonomi native token to trade.
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Are people being informed about the ANT token that already exists on Eth? I put it in one of my Trust wallets thinking it was the new token…all very confusing?
There are tens of thousands of tokens with the same names. That is why a token is not added by name, but by the address of the smart contract - all sites list the addresses for this reason. I’m sure when the token is released this will be described.
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So the Omniwallet website is acceptable as a MAID wallet address to use for the TGE? (I do appreciate your reassurance that an ETH address should be noted for the team to put the appropriate amount of ANT.)
Maybe it’s obvious to everyone else. And I do see that, earlier in this thread, you have already posted that the answer to the above question is [absolutely?] yes. But like I said, I have had this idea since many years ago: that only a hardware wallet owned by oneself such as Omni Core would be acceptable. So I need to squash that preconceived notion ASAP, if it is a false notion.
By having an absolute direct reassurance. I’m sure it’ll be clear in the TGE event papers/text.
You have the wrong idea, you don’t need Omni Core. Any wallet that allows sending and signing will work.
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Just to be clear, no omni wallet can help match your BTC address used for OMNI MAID to a ETH address. They are completely different and unrelated in any way.
So, as per the indication given above, we will be expected to sign something and then send out MAID to a burn address that will be given to us. Somehow we have to tell them the ETH address to send the ANT tokens to once we burn the MAID.
Details indicating the message to be signed and where to send the sign (encrypted) message to will be given to us. Omni wallet website can do this signing for us.
Details on the burn address and when to send the OMNI MAID will be given in the details yet to be announced. Omniwallet website can do this sending, we just need enough BTC to pay the fees needed to send OMNI.
What is not certain yet is how we will securely be giving/associating the ETH address to the smart contract doing the send of ANT to our address.
How could this be done? My opinion & guesses
- the message we are given to send will have a field for our ETH address to be used and thus when the decode is done the ETH address is there and the signing process will prove we did the signing and used the private key to do it.
- potential flaw in this is that if others get the message and know our BTC address then they can read the message and that associates publicly the ETH address and BTC address
- privacy is solved if the smart contract can do the decoding and no one ever sees the signed message
- The message is encoded by our public BTC address and the process of signing will give to us the ETH address the ANT is sent to.
- This means the process has had knowledge of the private key of that address, but details are not public
As you can see omnicore is never needed and omniwallet site can do all you need to do
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