Everybody who has ever eaten a “free sample” at the grocery store obviously knows the power of such primal marketing.  But Delulo has a monumental idea here to modernize our free sample distribution method (create a half-life).

Applying a half-life here will assure that those less interested in their “free gift or airdrop” will be less likely to manipulate the price of BitsharesDNS later (when the market cap gets huge).

To the media, it will look as if our airdrop is more generous than it really is because we say that we are giving away 5-10% of BitDNS, but in reality, maybe only 3-6% actually claim their “free gift.”  And by the time a couple weeks pass, then it will no longer be a news story, so why should we still want to be giving away “free promotional coins.”  And who wants to be answering emails about people who are pissed off that they can’t get their “free coins!”  You need to cap the timeframe if you want to simplify the technical hassle of the distribution process as well (that is another legitimate excuse to tell the media).
No media person can spin this negative because the people who missed out on the offer can just go purchase these BitDNS shares on an exchange if they really want them, and the fact that that they did not redeem them within the 2 week window shows any reader that they were not really that interested after all.  So there can be no negative publicity for doing this, plus it will save us from giving away more of a stake than we need to.

Definitely have maximum caps at addresses over 100 BTC/NMC etc.  If the Winklevoss kids want to maximize their free gift, then let them take the time to get out of their Corvettes and move their bitcoins to multiple wallets, then they can take full advantage of the offer.  Otherwise, it’s a “rich get richer” scenario that we legitimately can say that we are purposefully avoiding unless the media wants to vilify Robin Hood (us).  Just realize that the media will not give us negative press for this lest they look like they are supporting the establishment.  Speaking of media softballs:

Here’s another idea, design your airdrop plan in a way that will automatically create softball media questions for you.   For example, I would give 3% to Namecoin holders, and 2% to Bitcoin holders.  This will beg questions from the media such as:
Why are you giving less to Bitcoin holders than Namecoin holders? (that will give you the opportunity to teach the media about the differences between Namecoin vs Bitcoin vs BitsharesDNS).

Basically you can construct your media interview based on your method of airdrop construction.  So that all you will get is softballs without having to defend any actions perceived as "selfish."

Just remember the big overall “airdrop” purpose picture:

The goal or function of the airdrop is to get media buzz and pique the interest of a target market (get a few coins into the hands of those who are actually using them).  Our goal here is not to create fair distribution but to make it more difficult for a BootlegBitsharesDNS clone to snipe our target audience after we release our application.  But we don’t have to tell the media that now do we?  To them it’s all charity, and efficient target marketing (no matter how little money we choose to spend on it).
This airdrop serves 2 purposes:

1.   The media can’t spin a negative story no matter how little of a stake we are giving away (because a 1% BitsharesDNS stake could be worth millions of dollars, but you won’t know until the market opens) because we are being more than generous by giving away free samples.  And after the market opens, if it looks like the BitsharesDNS shares are not worth much money (the media won't even be interested in a story at that point), then it will discourage copycat BootlegBitsharesDNS airdroppers because it won’t look like they can make much money in our space.  But if the 1% stake that we gave away is indeed worth a million dollars (the media will still be knocking at your door), the copycat airdroppers will be late to the party; and by airdropping any clones onto our target audience (who will already have a significant stake in the original BitsharesDNS application) they will only be spreading FUD because why would legitimate players be interested in a illegitimate game.  In other words:

2.   We cannot get scooped by the first clone who chooses to fork BitsharesDNS and release a large percentage of BootlegBitsharesDNS onto our target demographic before we can have the chance to get them interested (because we already piqued their interest).  An airdrop (free samples) is essential marketing that is designed to circumvent the copy cat “redistribution” business model.  Because even though the copy cat redistributer will be indeed giving away a whole lot more BootlegBitsharesDNS, the end users will already have “legitimate” BitsharesDNS in their possession that is already worth some actual amount of $money, where the redistributed BootlegBitsharesDNS have no value (in the absence of an actual market), and is perceived as such until a market for it is created.  Therefore, that fact that we are releasing BitsharesDNS in small batches does not change the fact that we are making the adoption of BootlegBitsharesDNS exponentially more difficult because:  who will be interested in a second market for BootlegBitDNS when they already have a stake in the first market (legitimate) BitDNS that has more current value.

Luckybit, where we disagree is that you ignore that btc holders are very very rarely btc devs and don't necessarily have any opinion on altcoins.  They are just crypto-currency enthusiasts. These are the people you want to come check out protoshares and see what their airdropped shares are about.

You are far too fixated on some imaginary conflict with all bitcoin users.  It just isn't like that.  They're not mostly thieves.  You have painted this whole picture of bitcoin being some evil cabal.  It is rubbish.  It has nothing to do with any culture.  It is true that the dishonest aren't going to be attracted to small cap coins as targets, but has nothing to do with the culture.

Good Idea but right now we can donate only "air"...

Lol that is a funny project made irrelevant as it still depends on mining.  It will not make bitcoin profitable nor decentralized.   It will add more centralization. 

No details were provided about the two way peg. 


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