Another set of additional questions, if you do not mind:
- What would be the main difference between B&C and a smart contract-based decentralized exchange if ever the latter is possible?
The latter wouldn't need the trusted signers. That would remove the need for a lot of B&C's infrastructure. There'd be no nominations or voting and you wouldn't even need shares or dividends. It could be done without a fee, apart from the coin transaction fees. There'd be no exchange operators, so there'd be no opportunity to make a business out of creating and running it.
- Can we increase easily the number of signers required and number of signers? Currently designed I understand that it is 8 out of 15. Any particular reason for this pair?
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that bitcoin and its clones won't allow you to have messages longer than a certain size when you want to spend a coin. If the coin is in a multisig address, you need lots of signatures to be able to spend it but then you hit the size limit. I think 8 out of 15 is pretty much as large as you can get.
- How could a trusted signer increase the speed of signing a deposit request message if he or she wanted to?
Not using Tor would do the trick.
tks.