It's not linux we should be worrying about, it's windows.

OP, if you don't provide Windows binaries, there is no point in the alt chain.

There'll be source and clients for Windows and Linux once the chain actually officially launches; got the build process for them setup already. Any standard Bitcoin miner will work. This is a slightly rushed launch so I unfortunately don't have a public client out for a test version of the chain. (Obviously there's my private one which could in theory be released but it's probably not a good idea.)

Well, we'll see what happens - partly depends if anyone manages to launch any interesting services with it.

It's a way of letting you send to addresses that have more complicated restrictions on how the coins can then be spent - such as requiring signatures from multiple people or devices - without the sender having to worry about what the exact requirements are. It also makes it easier to, for example, set up an escrow arrangement where some coins can only be transferred either with the agreement of either the buyer and seller, or by the escrow agent and one of the two parties agreeing - so the escrow provider can't just run off with them. Sadly the tools to actually make this kind of escrow possible aren't quite ready yet.

There's a good technical description here. It was originally going into Bitcoin, but I think they've pretty much abandoned it in favour of something similar which may or may not get enough support. It's all a tad messy on their end right now.

Not really. That'd probably best be done externally by someone with more experience with Open Transactions, if at all.

FALSE, if anything no exchange will give it a chance of actually being adopted before the pump & dumpers happens.

Well I would say trade from the start would prevent pump & dumping. If you wait for a while some are already sitting on tons of coins which makes your scenario possible. The more people mine/adopt this coin the better chance it has

In a way. The sender's side of the transaction is the same size no matter how complex the rules are - the actual script is only included when the transaction is spent, so the receiver pays any extra fees that result from them choosing to have more complex restrictions on how it can be spent.

Logo ?

You can register accounts with Coiled Coin addresses at mmpool and they'll start receiving coins once I've tested and enabled it.