Its safe as long as you don't hand over your private key to anybody.

The limit is 1 BTC per address. You can create another address in the same wallet and burn BTC from your new address.

Quite the opposite! I see that as a "Proof of Fairness"

Don't forget to donate to the devs if you invest.

I think this is because the last digits are a checksum. If you read the whole thread this is explained somewhere with the Proof of Burn concept.

thks!

What about linking XCP generated Assets to the original Issuer address by limiting an address to a single issued asset per address and requiring it to maintain a certain balance of XCP?

I think it could be a reasonably effective way to prevent one person from, issuing as mentioned, numerous Assets and sitting on them. It's pretty trivial at the moment to write a script to issue all possible 3/4 letter assets, and I don't think that a tiny fee is a real deterrent.

Given these problems, and the fact that any fixed fee will ultimately not make sense, I still support some kind of proof of model (e.g. PoS) and local/global assets to ultimately fix this problem (as I described several pages back). It has a natural analogy with how marketing (in the real world) works -- anyone can come up with an idea/product, but to introduce it to the real world, there are costs involved. Even further, it (a PoS function) directly incentivizes holding XCP without introducing a balance requirement (a heavy handed way to do things) or restricting it per address (which = Sybil attack). Again, proof of stake doesn't have to lead to inflation of the underlying asset (one of the most common criticisms); in XCP's case, it can create new assets.

As an extension, I could even imagine XCP holders that don't want to create assets to pull their "proof of stake" power into some sort of pool to help promising/deserving projects that don't have a lot of XCP to launch.

The last 6 characters is the checksum and has to be calculated based on the previous characters.

Will the amount of coins minted by burning be a set amount and everyone gets a share proportional to their investment or will it be a set amount x investment?