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Ask
Write a question and pay in $ZC. Choose how many holders it reaches, from 100 to a million, and how high it sits in the feed.
priced per person, in ZC
Silverchat, the polling network from Snowmoon
Ask the network.Watch the answer develop.
The polling network from Snowmoon, ch. 27. Now on Ethereum.
Example
Will ETH be above $5,000 before January?
- Yes63%
- No37%
pricing opens at launch
Ask 10K people →Example records
#26,071,901Base fees lower next month?YES28NO72
#26,071,900Decentralization winning?YES67NO33
#26,071,899ZC past 1,000 holders?YES41NO59
#26,071,898Trust a jury drawn at random?YES46NO54
#26,071,897Audits before new features?YES72NO28
#26,071,896Is 20 days enough for new rules?YES58NO42
Every print keeps its negative. Verify it on-chain.
- Pay to ask
- You pay $ZC to ask. More ZC reaches more people.
- Answer and earn
- Holders of $20 of ZC or SC answer with a free signature and share 35% of what you paid.
- Fixed on-chain
- The result goes on Ethereum. After that nobody can change it, not even us.
How it works
How a question becomes a record
Every poll goes through the same five steps. Each one leaves a trace you can check.
Where the ZC goes
ZC is spent. SC is owned.
Every poll is paid in ZC and split the moment its result is fixed. Two fifths of each payment leave the supply for good: one part burned as ZC, one part spent on SC and burned as SC.
- 35%AnswerersShared by the people who answered. Claimed within 90 days.
- 25%TreasuryKept by the treasury, a Safe on Ethereum.
- 20%SC buybackBuys $SC on Stockereum and burns it, once SC is live.
- 20%BurnedBurned as ZC. Gone from the supply.
- 35%
- AnswerersShared by the people who answered. Claimed within 90 days.
- 25%
- TreasuryKept by the treasury, a Safe on Ethereum.
- 20%
- SC buybackBuys $SC on Stockereum and burns it, once SC is live.
- 20%
- BurnedBurned as ZC. Gone from the supply.
Pricing opens at launch. A poll costs a fixed amount per person asked, paid in ZC at the live price.
From the book
It starts in chapter 27.
In Snowmoon, Vitalik Buterin's novel, a network answers questions people pay to ask. Silverchat builds it on Ethereum, with $ZC.
Read chapter 27 →We are not affiliated with the author.
In the bookHere
In the bookPeople pay zipcoins to put a question to a broad slice of the network. Pay more, and more people hear it.
HerePay $ZC to ask. Breadth sets how many holders it reaches.
In the bookClients check the proofs and reject any update that breaks the rules.
HereEach result root goes on Ethereum. Your browser recounts it.
In the bookA new algorithm hash only counts after a twenty-day delay.
HereSilverAlgorithm holds the rules hash, with the same twenty days.
In the bookVotes are anonymous. Results split by what people say about themselves.
HereAnswers are published without addresses. Region and age are optional.
Ours, not the book's: paying the people who answer, the $SC token, and the split of every payment.
The archive
Every print keeps its negative.
A fixed poll keeps its question, its count and the transaction that fixed it, for anyone to look up. Point at a negative to print it.
EXAMPLE · NOT REAL RECORDS
#26,071,901
Base fees lower next month?
- Yes28
- No72
#26,071,900
Decentralization winning?
- Yes67
- No33
#26,071,899
ZC past 1,000 holders?
- Yes41
- No59
#26,071,898
Trust a jury drawn at random?
- Yes46
- No54
#26,071,897
Audits before new features?
- Yes72
- No28
#26,071,896
Is 20 days enough for new rules?
- Yes58
- No42
Verify it
Don't trust this page. Check it.
Payments, splits, refunds and every result root live on Ethereum. The contracts are not audited and the tokens are volatile. Read the code before you put in more than you can lose.
- SilverAskat launch
- SilverAlgorithmat launch
- SilverBuybackat launch
- $ZC0x4E67…8722
- Rules hash0xf996…01fb
- Every answerGET /api/polls/{id}/leaves
- Sourcegithub.com/silverchat-dev
- Auditnone yet