A short but important one regarding those who have shares in MaidSafe and also for those that loaned MAID back to MaidSafe some time ago. Both groups (albeit it differently and for different reasons) have been crucial to supporting this 19 year endeavour to get to where it is. Today The Network that David and the team (and you guys) have built and pursued for so long will take another big leap forward. I would mention here that although this may feel like the end of a journey for some, it is the very beginning of the journey for The Network itself. There is still much to do, but ANT being live is a critical step in helping drive support and access learnings and insights too.
Speaking of learnings and insights - over the years I have come to learn that knowing when to take ones hands off the wheel (or indeed at times not to grab the wheel in the first place) is important.
With this is mind I would like to give those of you on the forum a heads up as to a revision I’m making in my current capacity at MaidSafe that affects both Shareholders and MAID lenders. There was a period of time (also known as a lock-up) for tokens that both groups will have access to, this was recommended as the best way to support The Network (via token stability/volatility), but as both these groups are also highly protective and supportive of all that has been (and will be) built, I’ve asked for the Smart Contract lock up period to be reduced from 18 months to 6 months.
This means that 50% of your token allocations will be made available month 3, with the remaining amount being unlocked month 6.
You of course don’t need to claim your ANT then, but it does mean it’s yours to claim and do with what you would like, when you would like to.
Thanks for hearing our voice in this regard. I appreciate the sensible compromise! This makes much more sense than the originally proposed 18 months period.
BTTF is a shareholder on your behalf, so they would get your tokens unlocked in the same period that Bux mentioned above. Although it is up to them to distribute it back to you.
Hi @Bux I had invested in maidsafe in 2011/12 does this mean that I will get my token in 6 months all being well? Will I receive these tokens in to my wallet? I’m new to all this so unsure how it all works.
You get half your tokens month 3 and the other half month 6. The exact process will be announced but my understanding is you will receive a NFT that is unique to you that is needed to claim these tokens in 3 and 6 months.
Technical Q. – For the lenders, how will Maidsafe link the OG MAID accounts to the new ARB addresses? Does that happen automatically when we move our still existing MAID from OMNI accounts to ARB account?
So in my case I loaned MAID from two OMNI addresses and I still have MAID in those OMNI addresses that I will soon convert to ANT.
I’m basically wanting to know if there is going to be any issues here or if it’s all good. I suppose I’m feeling rather insecure about moving tokens after all these years.
Also re: NFT’s - is this some sort of separate (from ANT) bonus thing? It’s not clear to me if this is just for shareholders or for lenders too.
I didn’t get any email. If they used the email address that I used to have when I made the loan, then it’s not going to work. That was my old company domain that I no longer own. I updated my email address on the forum over a year ago now I think, so they’d have to use that one, which I suppose they didn’t do.
Also would be bad form to use a reply from an email anyway - whomever owns the domain now could simply send fake info.
I’ve asked about this very question before and I thought it was resolved that there would be tracing between the MAID address and the new ETH/ARB address. Hopefully that is true and they aren’t just going to hand out tokens to rando’s holding email addresses.
This is a community forum, MaidSafe is not allowed to see the emails of those registered here. I will DM you the email of the person responsible for the loans. You can write to him which was your old email and which was the new one to confirm that you are the owner.
okay, but in all honestly, that’s really not going to be hard confirmation of my identity.
I’m sure that everyone here recognizes that I’m the same a-hole I’ve always been … but good practice here would simply be to link the OG MAID address to the new ARB address.
I don’t think that’s going to happen, but if you have access to the original MAID address you used, but not your email,you could send using your new email, a signed message using your MAID address private key to prove you are who you claim you are.
… but good practice here would simply be to link the OG MAID address to the new ARB address.