Are you going to upload the encrypted wallets before and give the password at launch? It might take me a while to compile it if you're not going to release a Linux binary.
Yes we are. It could take a while before we finally compile the Linux wallets for every flavor of Linux.
Again, any complications one may have at the beginning should be averted by the block rewards. Ideally, it wouldn't even be advantageous to mine from the beginning as there will be a few difficulty retargets once the 1000th block is approached.
Will all the pools be ready at Launch time i.e.