1 Is EVMORE a security, an ICO token, or a presale? +
None of those. There was no token sale, no presale, no investor round, no team allocation, and no premine. Every EVMORE in circulation entered the supply by a verified KeccakCollision proof submitted to the on-chain contract. The first miners and the latest miners follow the exact same protocol. EVMORE is a technical experiment in fair distribution, not an investment product, and this site makes no claims about price, returns, or future value.
2 What does "fair launch" actually mean for EVMORE? +
It means there is no privileged starting position. No tokens were allocated to founders, investors, or a treasury before mining opened, and the contract has no minting path other than the verified-proof path. Block one is the same open puzzle as every block after it, so no participant -- including the authors -- began with an advantage that others could not also earn by mining. That property, credible neutrality, is verifiable by reading the contract rather than trusting a disclosure.
3 How can I verify the scarcity claim myself? +
Read the contract. The 21M ceiling is a constant the mint function checks before issuing any reward, current total supply is a public value on the ERC-20 contract, and every mint is a transaction on the Ethereum block explorer. You do not have to trust an attestation, a report, or this website -- the entire distribution history and the cap that bounds it are on-chain and checkable in O(1).
4 Why is the supply capped at 21 million? +
The cap echoes Bitcoin's fixed-supply schedule as a well-understood scarcity model, not as a promise about value. It is enforced by the Vyper contract -- the mint function checks total supply against the cap before issuing rewards, and the halving schedule guarantees the asymptotic approach without ever crossing. The cap cannot be changed by governance because there is no governance contract.
5 What hardware do I need to mine EVMORE? +
A modern consumer GPU is the comfortable baseline. KeccakCollision is memory-bandwidth-bound, so GPU memory throughput matters more than raw shader count. A CPU with fast DRAM can also be competitive, particularly in the early epochs while the collision-width difficulty is low. The repository ships reference miner builds for both CUDA and OpenCL.
6 How is mining verified on-chain without burning impossible amounts of gas? +
The verifier contract is intentionally tiny: 62 lines of Vyper. It re-hashes the four submitted 32-byte values against the current challenge, masks the lowest N bits, and confirms they all match -- four Keccak operations and a few comparisons. The expensive part of mining (the search) happens off-chain. The verifier is so small because all the work has already been done by the miner.
7 What happens when the block reward halves to zero? +
It never reaches zero. The reward halves every roughly four years and the cumulative supply asymptotes toward but never reaches 21,000,000. By Era 8 (roughly year 32), per-block rewards are well under one EVMORE and continue dividing. The protocol contemplates fee-based sustainability over very long horizons, the same long-tail structure Bitcoin uses.
8 Does the team hold any EVMORE, and can they mint more? +
The authors hold no special allocation. There is no founder wallet funded outside the mining process and no admin function that can create tokens -- the only minting path in the contract is the verified-proof path any miner uses. Whatever the authors mine, they mine by solving the same puzzle as everyone else, under the same difficulty, with no head start.
9 How does EVMORE compare to premined or ICO-launched tokens on distribution fairness? +
A premine or ICO front-loads supply to insiders before the public can participate, and the fairness of that split rests on disclosures you have to trust. EVMORE has no pre-allocation: 100% of supply is issued through open mining, every mint is an on-chain transaction, and the absence of a founder allocation is a property of the code rather than a promise. The Compare pages lay out the distribution model against several alternatives without any claim that one will be worth more than another.
10 Is EVMORE an investment or a way to make money? +
No. EVMORE is open-source software and an experiment in verifiable, credibly-neutral distribution. This site deliberately makes no price predictions, return projections, or investment claims, and mining consumes real electricity and hardware with no guaranteed outcome. Treat participation as a technical exercise, understand the costs and risks, and do your own research.
11 Why Vyper instead of Solidity? +
Vyper's smaller language surface makes formal reasoning cheaper, the bytecode is leaner, and the lack of inheritance limits the class of accidental security bugs that plague larger Solidity systems. For a contract whose entire purpose is to enforce monetary policy, "fewer ways to be wrong" is the right tradeoff.
12 Where can I get EVMORE today? +
EVMORE is open-source software and this site does not sell tokens. Ways to obtain it are: (1) mine it by submitting a valid KeccakCollision proof, (2) trade on whatever secondary venue independently lists the token, or (3) receive it from another holder. There is no central seller, no official storefront, and no endorsement of any third-party venue. This is not a solicitation to buy.
13 How is the multi-chain roadmap funded if there was no raise? +
Mining fees accumulate in an on-chain treasury. The bridge and federated-mining stages are gated by treasury thresholds (1,000 / 10,000 / 100,000 EVMORE) encoded in the contracts. Each stage unlocks deterministically once mining has paid for it. There is no off-chain treasury and no foundation custody.