Hedera Help

Mainnet at Open Access

• What support will Hedera offer after Open Access?
• How many nodes will be on the Hedera mainnet (beta) at open access?
• How long will the Hedera mainnet remain in beta?
• Will the mainnet (beta) continue to have scheduled maintenance after open access?
• Will the mainnet (beta) be throttled?

Network & Services

• Is Hedera censorship resistant?
• How does someone stand up a mirror node?
• What is a Hedera Improvement Proposal (HIP)?
• Where can I find the status of Hedera's mainnet and testnet?
• When was the genesis of the Hedera DLT, and what historical records are kept?
• Approximately how much would it cost to store all txs history without a mirror network? Is it realistically affordable for a startup?
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Fees

• How are the transfers and fees associated with a transaction published?
• How does the exchange rate impact transaction fees?
• What does a COST_ANSWER query return?
• Are there any free operations?
• How is Solidity gas accounted for in determing the fee for a smart contract operation?
• Who pays for threshold records?
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Hedera Governing Council

• What is the schedule for coins to be released from Hedera’s Treasury?
• Will the Council publish which decisions require unanimous vs super majority agreement?
• Who will hold the keys for Council members, and how will they be managed?
• Is there a limit to the number of companies from any one industry that can be on the Council at any given time?
• What Council decisions require unanimous votes rather than 2/3rds?
• What are the requirements from the Council members, i.e. how much of an obligation do they sign on for?
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Hashgraph Consensus Algorithm

• What are the material financial terms of the license agreement between Hedera and Swirlds?
• Can Hedera’s license to use the hashgraph technology be revoked? If so, in what situations?
• Does Hedera have an exclusive license to use the hashgraph technology?
• How much bandwidth overhead does gossip about gossip add to messages?
• Have any non-Carnegie Mellon professors or academics verified hashgraph as asynchronous Byzantine fault tolerant (ABFT)?
• Who generates the timestamp on a transaction?
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Running a Network Node

• Who can run a Hedera mainnet node?