Does Marlowe Run have the capability to mint NFTs? I know the easiest way is to mint via https://www.nft-maker.io/ or https://cardano-native-token.com/ but if I want to mint it on my own, is minting in the Terminal the only option?
https://docs.cardano.org/en/latest/native-tokens/getting-started-with-native-tokens.html
I was wondering if Marlowe Run has the feature to mint NFTs in addition to creating smart contracts.

No, it is not planned for Marlowe to have a feature to mint NFTs or native tokens.
However, it will use tokens internally to represent the ownership of a role in contact.

...is minting in the Terminal the only option?

Yes, right now the terminal is the only first party option.
As Marek pointed out, the community may have other ways. https://satran004.medium.com/cardano-client-lib-minting-a-new-native-token-in-java-part-iii-1a94a21cfeeb looks like a good tutorial if you're in the Java programming ecosystem.
If you are not a programmer or terminal guru, I'm pretty sure a web version and/or Daedalus version is mostly likely in the works. The Daedalus version will supposedly allow you to do some ongoing "management" tasks of your minted tokens.
I'm pretty sure they demoed a web page for minting Native Tokens on one of the monthly updates. Charles in one of his AMA also said he wanted to bring that management to both the web, then eventually Daedalus.

I was wondering if Marlowe Run has the feature to mint NFTs...

No, no minting functionality. That tool is specifically for creating smart contracts.


When will Daedalus show NFT'S? I believe it is already possible to see NFT'S in Yoroi, I am wondering when could we expect similar features in Daedalus.

Right now the only way I know is using pool.pm because Smaug created a metadata specific for this purpose.
The wallets aren't yet fit to the same metadata therefore first, the proposal must be accepted.
I hope it will.

If you need it natively supported, you'll have to wait till Alonzo and the launch of smart contracts.


What are the practical motivations for owning ADA crypto currency? As a person who are deciding to buy some ADA currency, what I am getting in return?
So far using ADA I can have:

Voting rights (governance)
Ability to run a pool
Grow your voting power through delegation rewards

Cardano has established community, company and the leader behind it.
It was not designed to be used as a stable coin so the value is volatile by definition.
Holding ADA is different from owning shares of a public company.
So what are the value behind ADA except the reasons listed above and price speculation on exchanges?

This is very subjective and can only be answered from an opinionated position. With that, it has value, IMO because it has

been developed by a very methodical, mathematical, and scientific method
derivative tokens which are "native", compared to Ethereum, where tokens are implemented via smart contracts – this has one major implication (among other benefits): transaction fees are a small fraction; no "gas" fees are required to execute a contract
a dedicated and sophisticated, and ever expanding, ecosystem of people and companies working to solve real problems, create valuable businesses, etc.
outreach programs targeting new developers, governments, and education
a treasury system where regular rounds of Catalyst fund winning Cardano-based projects via grants
smart contracts that can be mathematically verified, enabling greater trust in the proper handling of funds

At the end of the day, it's the market that determines the value of a cryptocurrency.


Why is there a minimum amount of ADA required to vote for Project Catalyst proposals? Voting on Project Catalyst proposals currently requires a wallet with 500 ADA or more.
It has been stated in Catalyst Town hall meetings that it is unlikely to be lowered significantly below that figure.
What are the barriers to lowering it further?
At what point does the cost of registering to vote exceed the voting rewards?

As Dor Garbash mentioned there are several reasons:

performance - the reason why they delayed Fund4 is that now the engineering team is working to improve the overall processes so that more people can participate
fraud - to prevent people who don't want to invest time and resources of the project but want to harm the community. So if this barrier is low more scammers/spammers can participate which will lead to lower quality of the whole ecosystem
meaningful participation - this point is connected with the previous one: people who are interested in the development of Cardano and can add value to Cardano should participate

Because your vote really matters... if you're rich enough. Just kidding. None of the above mentioned reasons make a lot of sense to me to be honest... apart from the subpar performance of the voting infrastructure obviously, that one I can certainly believe. Not sure what low barrier has to do with fraud, this is proof of stake, not every-vote-is-equal-to-every-other-vote... insert facepalm.


Probability of Minting a Block Assume a Stakepool with a delegated amount of x Ada. How can one calculate the probability of minting a block and what factors does it depend on?

Visit a site like pooltool.io to see current delegated total for the network (top left corner), currently 30.24b ADA but changes day to day. Each epoch we have 0.05 (active slot coefficient network parameter) of the available slots on average assigned a leader slot (chance to produce a block), which is 5 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 0.05 = 21600 blocks per epoch on average.
Doing the simple maths for, say, 1 million ADA delegated to a pool yields 1,000,000 / 30,240,000,000 * 21600 = ~ 0.7 blocks per epoch. Alternatively you can do 1/21600 * 30,240,000,000 to get a result of 1,400,00 ADA for one block on average.

It depends on a few parameters: 1. Transaction fees from the set of transactions included in a block that was minted. 2. Monetary expansion: involves distinguishing between the total supply of ada and the maximal supply of ada. Please note that the more pools join the network, the less reward will be distributed.


What is the logic behind Cardano's tokenomics and emmission schedule? Bitcoin was made to be mined until roughly 2140.  I like that it was made for decades to come while many projects are built for 4 years or whatever.
Personally I do not believe inflation in and of itself is bad, as economies are not static and expand.  What is bad is inflation manipulation that is unprovable and not tamper-proof, or when it is too high.
Coin Gecko currently shows circ supply to TS as:
32,056,062,599 / 45,000,000,000
71% in circulation on the 3rd year already seems a bit high.
Does Cardano have to have a fixed supply?  A perpetual, provable, tamper-proof small stock-to-flow seems best to me.
Can someone make the decisions behind Cardano's inflation make sense to me?

The uncirculated (reserve) coins are distributed over time at a specific percentage rate.  As the reserve decreases in size, the amount distributed each epoch (5 days) will decrease.  At the current percentage rate the reserve will halve approximately every 4-5 years.

Ada has a fixed supply of 45 billion coins
30 Billion coins were issued/sold during the ICO rounds
The other 15 Billion coins were placed into a reserve for operation of the network
Every 5 days (each epoch) the transaction fees and a fixed percentage of the reserve are added to a pot
A fixed percentage of the epoch's pot is added to the treasury and the rest are distributed as staking rewards

Cardano monetary policy has a more precise explanation.

Eventually we will stop measuring Cardano in Ada and start measuring it in “Lovelace.”


How are NFTs being minted without smart contract in Cardano? NFTs are being minted in Cardano even without a smart contract in place. How does it ensure that no more token gets minted with the same ID?

On Cardano, an NFT doesn't require a Smart Contact, as it is minted as an native asset.
To make sure a NFT is a really non-fungible, the minter of the native asset is usually locking its minting policy in time. In other words, you mint just one native asset and lock any further minting/burning in time, so it is impossible to increase its supply starting from a specific slot time.
As an example, have a look at the minting script of nutcoin.

The fees for a Cardano NFT are extremely low, in comparison to ETH. I used a service and paid 3.16 ADA. There's a video showing it done at the command line for 0.16 ADA.