I did some reading up on the site, forums and watched a few videos on Burst and had a few questions for you. Not being terribly experience in crypto, these are just for my own understanding, so please don't take any of these to be putting the project itself down.

What is it that sets burst apart from other crypto projects?
It looked like the way mining was done by allocating part of your hard drive for it to store 'completed calculations' and it's low cost of 0.02 cents (10 kW) was rather unique.

I also saw that smart contracts was a big piece of burst, which as the site mentioned was also available with Etherium. Is there a difference between how the two projects use this function?

I can see how the casino area with the couple of games (I'm sure there will be more) is a use case for the burst currency. Looking through the asset explorer I saw some of those at the top of the rich list stating other projects including mining, other casino/games, and investments that pay dividends. Is the general use of burst to create these types of 'individualized projects?' Would this be similar to bitshares but instead of making unique assets, they all use the burst coin?

What exactly is cross-blockchain transfer? Is this what would allow for currency exchanges between blockchains, such as trading Steem - Burst, Bitcoin - Burst, etc through the Burst blockchain instead of going through another exchange?

You had talked about your idea of combining the @thirsty project with Burst. Can you go a little more in depth on how Burst would be used in that case? Would thirst entertainment create a fund and provide payouts through Burst in that case? Again..not trying to argue the idea at all...just wanting to get a clearer picture in my head.

I want to make sure I do it justice when it's talked about.