If my memory doesn’t fail me, it’s about $3 million.

It will start on January 18, at least this date is stated on the official website.

If all nodes have no priority over each other, how does the system determine the node which should process transactions from several other nodes?

Is it some kind of an upgraded version of xrp ripple? Do you see ripple as your competitor or you rate xrp in some other category?

Is there a healthy competition between nodes which want to become the main one, or is the order of their use known in advance?

Eth has doubled since the posting of this ICO will you raise the ratio to eth and credits?

Hello! As I understand there will be a healthy competition between nodes to become main node. CREDITs use special voting system to chose which node will be main.
It is written in WP: "To become the main network node, the node searches for the value of the hash function that it calculates based on the last stored ledger. We organize a healthy competitive environment between the
network nodes for the opportunity to become the main node; to generate and store a new ledger".

around 3 mln $, pre-ico hard cap reached, information about this you can find on official site

ask technical questions CREDITS CTO Evgeniy Butyaev in telegram group https://t.me/creditscom he is working hard on project and has no time to answer here

Hey! The cost of performing transactions in the first three years of the system operation will be set
individually for different types of transactions and operations. In the future, an algorithm for the
automatic generation of the transaction cost will be developed.