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You can self vote to your heart's content. So since you have 0 power, your palcoin vote is worth zero. Note that your percentage of power from Steem remains the same, so a 100% palcoin vote will also have a 100% steem vote.
Curation is 50/50 as a test run. Distribution is happening through claimdrop, miner tokens, and straight up exchanging for Palcoin with steem at steem-engine. We're also going to have a small faucet for people that interact on the MSP discord.

In a nut shell, Steemit dragged their feet with SMT's, so we said fuck it, we can do it ourselves.

I haven't experimented with steem-engine yet. I'll probably check that out at some point soon and maybe convert this weeks steemit earnings over to Palcoin.