The Honest Answers
FAQ
THE ANTI-CARNIVAL
This is every other crypto. A carnival of confusion. Ours is a meter, a power plant, and a number that means one thing.
Is this an investment?
No. It is a share of production, distributed weekly. Nothing to invest; nothing to risk but disbelief.
In plainer words
Nobody is asking you for money. There is no token sale, no deposit, no minimum. The bank makes power, and every week it gives each person an equal share of that production. You cannot lose money you never gave. The only thing you can lose is the chance to believe a bank like this exists.
Who can claim?
Any person. One each. Proof is the burn, not paperwork.
In plainer words
No documents, no permission, no forms. Being a person is the whole requirement. The proof that you are real is not a signature on a page — it is the burn: claim a coin, burn it, and watch a machine do a real kilowatt-hour's worth of work. A form can be faked. A working wall socket cannot.
Where does the energy come from?
The power plants. That is the whole sentence.
The full account of how the plants and their meters are measured is published for those who go looking — see The Proof and the white paper's own chapters.
What if two people share a router?
Both claim. The hash is per person, not per IP.
In plainer words
A router is not a person. The bank marks your claim by hashing your browser's shape with a salt that changes every week. Two people behind the same router make two different hashes, so both receive their own share. The house shares the internet; it does not share the person.
Can I claim twice?
No. The registry is forever. That is what makes the claim worth something.
In plainer words
The list of who claimed never forgets and never forgives. A claim made twice is a claim broken, and a broken claim breaks the equal share for everyone else. The forever-ness of the registry is not a rule for your convenience — it is the wall that keeps one person from quietly standing in line as ten.
What does it cost?
Nothing. The bank gives.
Is my data collected?
No. No cookies, no tracking. The claim is a hash of your browser's shape plus a weekly salt — it cannot be traced to you, and it cannot be reused.
In plainer words
The bank never learns who you are. It keeps a fingerprint of a fingerprint: a number that says "a person claimed this week" without ever holding a name, an address, or a face. And because the salt changes weekly, the number from last week opens nothing this week. It cannot follow you, and it cannot be stolen and replayed.
What is power plant staking?
Power plant staking: you lock coins, the power plants pay you weekly. The pool's meter is the only authority.
In plainer words
Setting coins aside so the plants pay you. Staking means locking coins for a while you choose. The power plants take a share of what they earn and pay it out weekly to everyone whose coins are locked. The pool's meter is the only authority — the pay is what the meter read, nothing promised on top.
in plain words: APY — APY is how fast staked coins grow in a year — here the pools pay targets: THE TRICKLE 2% APY, THE STREAM 5% APY, THE CURRENT 8% APY.
in plain words: lock — a lock is coins you set aside for staking — you choose for how long, and the plants pay you while they sit.
The Deep Reference
The economics behind every answer here — the reserve, the split, the share, the burn, and the three income streams — are written out in full in the white paper's chapter, The People's Fund — Reverse Banking.
WHAT DOES THIS COIN DO?
It's a claim on real power. One coin = one kilowatt-hour, delivered by the power plants. Burn one and the meter delivers one. Hold one and the reserve stands behind it. Stake it and the plants pay you weekly.
KEYS → SEAL → CHAIN → GATE — the four-stage trust over every number
The bank gives. One human. One allocation. One share. Every week.