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- Who is working on the interface?
It's Aggroed's group. The same people who brought us Steem Monsters and Steem Engine.
- Does the "team" have enough funds to deal with the big cost that can come their way?
I believe so, if this is any indication: Scotbot Server ordered
Scotbot is the back-end that simulates steemd for rewarding upvotes and such. E.g.:
http://scot-api.steem-engine.com/get_discussions_by_trending?token=PAL&limit=10&tag=palnet
- What is the ultimate goal of PALnet?
I don't know if you saw the "SPORK" idea, but it was basically a spec to "fork out" aloof stakeholders, without touching their original stake. So the ultimate goal is to recreate the original conditions of the Steem platform and then move forward with the community, without the ninja-mining bagage.