Hi Myriad Force,

I presented Jez (the developer) with your question and wanted to relay his response:

Ethereum is the network of choice right now. Not sure lisk would offer us much benefit. Ethereum is a rapidly innovating and well supported network.  The ecosystem is very rich and there's a lot of assets on the blockchain which gives us access to customers who have funds.  And since all tokens are erc-20 compatible, automated exchanging from one token to another is quite trivial and lots of exchanges will support this, as will protocols like 0x etc.  

In short, we get a lot of benefit in being on the ethereum blockchain and although its technically feasible to run on other smart contract enabled blockchains, it still might not be worth doing if the rest of the ecosystem isn't there.

Another quote from him that further elaborates on the benefits of utilizing Eth:

"Sciguy, other reasons.  Winter is coming!  Sorry, i meant, Metropolis.   it brings new features that we really like as well.   like EC math (lets us and other people do zk-Snarks, for good privacy, but more importantly for us, lets us do BLS random numbers (aka herd randomness, ok, I just made that phrase up).  Also, in Metropolis, the contract is able to pay the gas, which further lowers the barrier to entry of new customers playing with FUN for the first time.  ie, their account only needs FUN in it, and doesn't need any Ether as well."

To add to it, in this interview, Jez explains how the only time a customer would wait on the ETH network is at the very beginning when entering the game, so it wouldn't be held hostage to a bloated main chain

https://youtu.be/POpedVl04D4

You or anyone reading this can join the Discord channel to learn more and directly ask questions (Slack is not being used anymore due to a lack of control over scammers).

https://discord.gg/rwETqSP

You may be new to crypto, but I can tell you have a background to move forward in this space... especially if you can appreciate long term play. I imagine short term gains is an all-consuming concept in many minds.

I would like to note that I only discovered FUN one day ago, but I read everything on Reddit, ETHtrader interviews with Jez San, and went through as much of the Slack chat as possible (he posts actively there) where I copied most of his messages in order to have a strong understanding.

I found that the research didn't take long and it allowed me to reduce anxiety and increase confidence (a priceless endeavor)... and also to learn some hidden/quiet information that isn't publicly mentioned.

For example, players in games can be shown their local currencies and not crypto... but they will actually be playing with FUN, it will just show up as fiat.

A quote from Jez discussing what Phase 2 will contain:

Phase 2 (of the games, not of the token sale)... is just a UI change.   there's nothing to stop anyone who's not in crypto from playing this too.   any payment processor (hundreds of them) can offer players to bridge the credit card to crypto chasm.   they can take the player's credit card, buy FUN for them, and let them play the games.   We can show the player their local currency in the games, and not crypto.   they will actually be playing in FUN, but they will be seeing it in FIAT.   Their Payment processor not only buys and sells FUN for them with credit cards... and returns it to the card afterwards... but also looks after their wallet, and uses derivative smart contracts to protect the currency hedge.

A quote regarding token dilution during Phase 2:

Yes, any unsold tokens in phase 2, which is likely if the price has risen from now til that date, will be returned to phase 1 holders.  making it sortof an anti dilution effect

I found a post where Ohad talks about unsold coins being burnt. Is this what you were referring to Goblinman?

Is there a post of his where he says he will destroy the remaining tokens (past 60%) ? There are so many pages to this thread, so I'm having  a hard time wading through them all.

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In my mind, just that Agoras has been in accumulation for a long time due to lack of "catalyst" (news) to push it over the edge, although it was slowly "getting there".

Now, with end of crowdsale and a platform this year, the "goal" is in sight, and everyone wants in, of course (myself included.) An order of magnitude increase (at minimum) is a good rule of thumb target for situations like these. 100x would be the next and 1000x + not out of picture for a project with this level of ambition (arguably the greatest in crypto) if it succeeds.

Here is a photo of the funding address over the last 24 hours. As far as I know it is still open try and send funds.

http://i.imgur.com/tYHddZc.png
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Thank you for the reply and the link. I purchased from bittrex already because I was under the assumption that Ohad was only accepting larger orders.

Is the price cheaper directly through him? I couldn't see any prices on that image.

I am wondering how the 10x price estimate is being derived. I am hearing that from multiple people but was wondering what rough estimate is being used to get to a 10x value.