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The Hedera Council

• Who can serve on Hedera’s Board of Directors?
• What happens if a Director’s employment status or affiliation with a Council member changes during the Director’s term?
• Are Hedera Committee Chairs required to be affiliated with Council members?
• Why did Hedera create a new role of President, and what does it mean that Brett McDowell is now the Chair and President?
• When will the payments be made from Hedera to Swirlds Labs, as part of the previously announced outsourcing agreement?
• Board Compensation at Hedera
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Hedera Mainnet (Beta)

• Is Hedera censorship resistant?
• How many nodes are on the Hedera mainnet (beta)?
• Will the mainnet (beta) continue to have scheduled maintenance?
• Is the mainnet throttled?

Mainnet Nodes

• Who can run a Hedera mainnet node?
• How are nodes incentivized to participate in the Hedera network?

Mirror Nodes

• How does someone stand up a mirror node?

Network Services

• How can I contribute to the OSS Hedera network services?
• What is the OSS license for Hedera network services?
• Will Hedera add additional services to the platform?
• 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?
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Network Fees

• Where can I find the full fee schedule & estimator?
• What fees does Hedera charge to use the network?
• Why do users need to pay for network services and why must they do so in hbars?
• How are Hedera transaction fees calculated?
• What do Hedera fees reflect?
• How are Hedera transaction fees broken out?
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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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Hashgraph IP Purchase & Open Sourcing

• How was the hashgraph IP purchase price calculated?
• What decisions have been made and who made those decisions?
• How will Swirlds Labs and Hedera work together in the future, and what is the distinction between these organizations?
• How will Swirlds interact with the Governing Council?
• When will the transition of Hedera staff to Swirlds Labs take place?
• Who from the Hedera executive leadership team is moving to Swirlds Labs?
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