Ok, your question under A has been answered. So regarding B:
I’m the custodian of my datafeed supported in the thread here and here are my statements in response to your questions.
I support a basket of currencies (like XDR) although I slightly prefer a basket of goods as this would likely be more stable (Poll: (Closed) When we are ready for a second coin, which type should be the first to launch?) but harder to implement due to a lack of reliable indices.
Not too keen on gold pegging. Swiss Francs (stable, no government money printing press) and to lesser extent Euro (wide adoption) are worth exploring. USD is fine as a peg (with NBT) and mainly practical as a unit of account in the next few years.
Forestry and land collateral sounds like a good idea but can only work when ownership is reflected in the blockchain and recognised by governments. We are not there yet. Otherwise the value of the collateral is most likely too low/too risky to be useful for cryptocurrencies
Still supporting Peercoin and holding a bunch. Main reason is that I don’t think Bitcoin is sustainable on how it is running right now and the lack of agility to change for the good doesn’t bode well. Peercoin will need a fresh breadth of air though and some repositioning. Hopefully the next release will bring more attention and more community participation.
