Hello
I am new here. I have a few questions:
- What makes Sprout+ better than the original Sprout (some key aspects)
- When will be the swap?
- What is the ratio of the swap? (I calculated something like 1:5000 based on current Sprot circulation)
- Is the wallet for Sprout+ available?
thanks
Hi bjma99,
We can't really compare Sprouts with Sprouts+. The Sprouts+ team started out as Sprouts community members who were interested in reviving Sprouts. We took on the role and began making progress but as the team began talking about it seriously, we decided to get more serious about everything. We decided to focus on building a globally used and recognised currency with a focus on philanthropy and green related projects.
We felt that smart contracts would likely come in useful and so we put a vote to the Sprouts community to either stick with the Sprouts (Peercoin) code-base, or to clone Ethereum so that we had access to smart contracts and newer technology.
The Sprouts community voted massively in favour of Ethereum and so we set off down that path.
We re branded just before the vote as we wanted to stand out and away from the original Sprouts dev, Mr. Eggman who, for one reason or another, ditched Sprouts and the community in favour of the 888 coin.
Sprouts+ was born.
Our goal is to do real good in the world, based around philanthropic and green endeavours. We have premined Sprouts+ in order to get access to the capital we will require in order to get the organisation off the ground and to compete with other blockchain organisations with dedicated capital, staff, etc.
The swap will occur after the launch of the MainNet and hopefully, the listing with one or more exchanges. We're close to launching the TestNet for community members to jump into, to assist us find bugs in the POS implementation we've written to replace POW. POS fits within out philosophy better and is a nice gimmick / achievement to have made. We're aiming to be the first Ethereum-based currency to have launched with POS.
The TestNet will run for 21 days and following that, if there are no major issues, we will launch the MainNet, etc, etc.
So, all being well, the swap will take place within the next six to eight weeks, or sooner...
We've apportioned 300 Million Sprouts+ coins for the swap. Sprouts total supply divided by 300 Million, gives ratio.
The Sprouts+ wallet is not yet public as we're still working on test scenarios with Geth Node and the wallet. The wallet will be available at the time we launch the TestNet and is available in Mac, Linux and Windows versions currently.
A new dev team has taken over Sprouts now. They formed because they were uncomfortable with our premine and direction we're now heading.
For more info on Sprouts, check out their ANN.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1798901.0For more info on Sprouts+, visit:
https://sproutsplus.communityHope this has answered your questions satisfactorily.