Right now you still need 20000 STAKE to become a validator, but that is probably changing to a lower amount. We basically kept our validator running for 1.5 years, before transaction fees provided anything to the cost. If you lower the cost for transactions we run into possible spamming problems and then all applications would suffer. Imho, 1 GWei is really low ā¦ actually already too low for proper spam protection.
The cost for the RPC depend on the load balancing set up and the cloud provider you use. I guess, the $250/month are AWS with load balancing. With a good admin and a less elite (=expensive) cloud provider you can probably bring it down to $50/month.
Therefore we will rather add our RPC as a fallback option.
Android phones and iPhones have a hardware chip just as your Ledger to safely store data on your phone which canāt be extracted, e.g. your biometric data. Trezor doesnāt have that kind of hardware security. Which doesnāt necessary make it a bad device.
At the end the security comes down to a lot of factors and using secure hardware is just one of them ā¦ Ledger just got bad press with the latest hack.
https://youtu.be/XS5QX7Oiv1w and https://twitter.com/MinervaWallet/status/1312675945246003201?s=20 should give you some insight.
Yea, that is the third option, but it basically kills any multi-device support and opens another can of worms
Well iOS and Android are Linux like, but that doesnāt help. Even if you port from Android to iOS it is basically a totally separate project ā¦ one written in Kotlin and the other in Swift with different UI designs in line with the expectations from Google and Apple
I guess there will be already very high convenience with a direct browser < > wallet connection when someone is on mobile only and via WalletConnect, once you enable it on the website (there is another discussion about providing the ChainID to the wallet going on).
Iām pretty sure that we can come up with something, once the wales come in and demand that level of additional security. Also I think we will get some more things going on on the Gnosis Safe side and this will be definitely on our radar and we might go to Berlin for a brainstorming session with the guys, once we are allowed to travel again.
Regarding iOS, we are closely cooperating with AlphaWallet and they have already xDai Chain support and we currently try to get their WalletConnect logic working as well. Check it out. I think it is important that there are several options for wallets and it will be hard for one wallet to meet all needs of all users ā¦ but we try to give our best with Minerva.
Would be rather in the area of 25k US/month, but yes its not peanuts. On the other side wallets like Argent have collected 15m US VC money ā¦ so there is obviously a lot money to make once you reached sufficient scale.
I have not even though of a full scale funding, but should it ever be possible, it would make life a lot easier
Thats tough ā¦ I mean it is an interesting challenge. I would rather go with voice commands and the contact list with names and ENS support, to avoid addresses as much as possible.
Letās say something like this: āMinerva, send 10 ETH coins to Markus to his ENS account markus.eth from my account #2 on Ethereum.ā, followed by the phone repeating the transaction and asking for verbal and biometric confirmation.