How will the value of Silk be determined for ICO buy in to DarkSilk?  Will it be assessed at the end of the ICO or the beginning?

For example, Silkcoin is currently $.0004.  1 DarkSilk will be purchasable for $.25.  As I speak, it would take 625 Silkcoin (silk after swap) to purchase 1 DarkSilk. 

How will you handle Silk having a value of $.0004 at the beginning of the ICO, and (random number) $.05 by the end of the ICO?  If I dump my silk in to DarkSilk, what rate of exchange will I receive?

DarkSilk price will be set at the end of the ICO, although we start out with a minimum of $ 0.25 the price could increase due to demand. What we consider important is the USD value of the purchased currency, be it from BTC or SLK. Understandably Silk price fluctuates more than BTC but that's buyers risk. We will most probably use a weighted average for Silk in order to calculate its contribution to the ICO.

We hope this answers your question.

Crypto has a lot of volatility, you know this. To speculate in favor of certain price points to get an optimal swap is something we cannot facilitate. We believe Silk has a very bright future, if a Silk holder decides to exchange to DarkSilk then we expect buyers due diligence.

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Excellent.  Thanks for your prompt responses

The Silk PoW period has 0 reward blocks and the PoW period is simply there to complete the transactions for the swap period. After the PoW period finishes it will be a pure PoS coin.

Silk Network will mine these blocks and no reward and no fees are are awarded to the Silk Network mining these blocks.

The first block of the Silk blockchain contains the amount needed to facilitate the 1:1 swap from Silkcoin->Silk, which will equal the current supply when the Bittrex deposit period starts, minus the 4 million that are held in the address associated with the MintPal/Moolah scandal/theft.

The 2 billion coin total is the total amount of coins that can ever be created from PoS mining, not the amount of coins in supply from launch.

Ok that sounds clear. Thanks for the clarifications.
It's good you have been accepted by bittrex which is one of the crypto exchanges I use the most. I bought my first Silkcoin there in 2014

Good job everyone involved, looking good. 

Good job guys, over 1,500 views so far.  More likes will rank us higher on $ tagged pages.   Turn up the volume.  It's time to grow the community.

There were two years to buy and sell Silkcoin
You still have plenty of time though, till the swap starts