https://www.peercoin.net/blog/the-work-on-the-roast-coordinator-is-completed/
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Impressive work, read your blog, but have not done actual testing.
But I wondered how scalable this is. Is the scalability limited by the coordinator software to gather the number of signatures or by the actual (non-open) server capacity or something else?
At which amount would use cases with 1000+ users ‘voting’ be constraint. Just dreaming ahead a bit 
I understand that the server IP is currently not open source and owned by the Peercoin Foundation. Is the Peercoin Foundation going to ‘sell’ host servers and rent them out or keep it as a USP for Peercoin for quite a while or at some stage open up the IP anyway. What is the envisaged business model re the server for the short and long term?
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There does not seem to be some “hard limit” on the number of signers, it can probably do 1k signers with ease. I am pretty sure if such numbers are ever hit, the project ought to be a success and readily adopted and there will be more investment in development which will further increase the upper limits of the stack.
Unknown. Nobody knows if there will ever be commercial demand for this tech.
The Foundation will run the coordinator, which will serve the other Foundation’s product - the Peercoin Flutter Wallet.
My personal game is to “trade” the stack for a strategic partnership with someone, or trade it for integration of peercoin into some service which uses a similar but less advanced tech stack. Such service is the Threshold Network, for example. There are a few more of similar sort.
In the long term, it is useless to dream of plans because realistically, the Foundation will likely be disbanded within a year and in that case, the produced software will be open sourced and published publicly.
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Huh?