I gotta admit, I always have a smirk of superiority on my face when people ask questions that imply that they think of XEL as a "regular" cryptocurrency.

Sorry for being so inactive at the moment. I don't feel like I can contribute much at the moment, neither ideas nor time.

One question regarding the hardcoded guardnodes: I still don't understand how these are determined. I get the hardcoded part, but how does one (or rather an institution, I guess?) become a guardnode in the first place?

Now, this would actually be an interesting idea, wouldn't it: if guardnodes and maybe even supernodes would be managed by universities and similar institutions, this might create a) a certain positive reputation of the project and b) incentivize those institutions to actually use the Elastic network. In any case, I'd love to get those involved. is anyone up for lobbying? I don't have contacts in that regard.