Personally, all crypto is terrible and the difference between MAID and eMAID is not that big.
I never use any crypto for anything else than trading. All of them suck in all âeverydayâ -type of use. And every time I need to learn to use some new crypto stuff for whatever reason, I am terrified by the possibility that either I make a mistake somewhere, or I get screwed by someone else.
With OMNI I can manage. Itâs not handy in any way, if we set the bar of âhandyâ anywhere in the range that is considered to be normal range outside cryptoworld. Over the years I have just accumulated barely enough skills and experience, that I can store and move my coins without getting overly anxious about it all. I get anxious, but it is tolerable. I have scattered my coins over several addresses to reduce the impact of my possible mistakes etc.
Now, to learn how to manage with eMAID in the wisest way, to develope my own practices to protect me from my own stupidity, is just an uphill battle, filled with dread of crucial mistakes. And it doesnât make it much easier if I get good instructions here form this forum. I still would double check everything form different sources etc. Itâs a hell of a job to educate myself enough.
Before the eMAID thing was set up, there was a survey asking if people would be interested about the possibility to have ERC20 version of the token. I replied âYes!â, and that is still true. The possibility is absolutely 100% positive to me too, but to actually make that transition⌠itâs another story.
I still havenât made the step necessary to retrieve my ERC20 PDC because of this (or well also/mainly? because of the gas fee that I heard about). (So all my Omni PDC is burned as of like a year ago, and waiting for me to transfer to my own Eth wallet, which I donât remember anything about anymore, for now.)
Dont altcoinimy mint the coins and send the emaid to eth addresses specified by the burner?
Id imagine so or they wouldnt be tradeable, so the coin owners must hold the emaid keys for their coins respectively.
They could be new buyers or the original burners.
Altcoinomy uses Gnosis Multisignature to mint erc20 when a burn transaction for omni maid is registered. They donât hold any eMAID, it is directly minted to the person who burned his omni MAID given that he provided his correct ETH address. The erc20 contract can only mint, and eventually they can revoke complete ownership so token amount can never change anymore.
It is my understanding that the good people behind altcoinomy are quite heavily invested in (e)MAID and it would make no sense whatsoever for them to close down.
They also have some of the finer brains in the crypto/regulatory spheres so I doubt anything but a very major black swan event would faze them.
There are many things to worry about, but this is not one of them - for now anyway.
The question is not wrong, the keys they hold can indeed mint as much eMAID as they want - so it is important to continue to watch the OMNI burn address if it matches the newly generated ERC20 amount. People control the keys - people make mistakes/million dollar hacks happen all the time.
Bridges are the most dangerous thing to transfer value from one network to another because the oracle problem is not yet solved. You just have a computer with bitcoin and ethereum blockchain and a person looking at a dashboard.