What is the potential downside to not diluting your shares 2% to airdrop them onto millions? (the answer is 100% loss because your competitor will clone your application and distribute it to our target market who will love it and buy more making everyone sell their invictus product for the clone that everyone has deemed the "industry standard")
Why would they only take 2% when they can just take 100%? They can fork it and take it all and put it as some side chain to Bitcoin.
So what is the point of giving them your shares when they already are talking about taking 100%?
I'm not against an air drop if it's to alt coin holders, or people who aren't associated with the crypto industry or Bitcoin community yet. I don't think it's a good idea to give Bitshares to the core developers so they can find it's really useful and then just take 100% and give it all to Bitcoin holders.
Altcoin developers aren't as likely to do this because they want altcoins to exist.
Bitcoin developers are forming a cabal which does not want altcoins to exist at all so there isn't much room to cooperate strategically when they want to destroy the whole altcoin market entirely.
What are you going to pay them for? Do you really think paying them 2% is going to keep them from going for 100% later on? I think Litecoin developers, Dogecoin, Mastercoin, Counterparty, all of these people have a shared vested interest but certain Bitcoin developers and certain miners don't respect the free market process.
If you do, you should give Bitshares to other developers who do.
You guys have a great product with your Bitshares, but as soon as you launch it, then it is effectively AIRDROPPED TO EVERYONE ON THE PLANET for free, weather you vote for it or against it, because that is the nature of the open source world we live in. Don't fight the airdrop guys, because if you don't do it, then your competitors will, and they will especially love
If your competitors don't want your industry to exist, you're not going to compete with scorched earth. You're right about Mastercoin, Counterparty and others. Those aren't really competitors, there can be symbiosis between Bitshares and them. Ethereum can form symbiosis as can Nxt.
Bitcoin core devs are the only ones saying altcoins shouldn't exist and making moves to prevent Counterparty and Mastercoin from existing. That is not competition, that is the politics of greed. How does an air drop change their minds beyond make them want to take 100% of your equity instead of 2%?
All it is doing is dividing the community up and changing the nature of the community from friendly competition to scorched earth take no prisoners competition. It's stupid in my opinion and maybe one way to deal with that whole side chain idea is to fork whatever they produce and make a version friendly to altcoins as well.
Because if you're going to give shares to all these others in an airdrop, are they going to give shares back in an airdrop? Mastercoin, Ethereum, Counterparty and Nxt, could any of them be talked into doing airdrops too?
But if Bitshares is the only one willing to do it then it's not as fair. Marketing is great, partnership is great, but be strategic about it and get something measurable from it.
Who thinks that we should run a faucet to the Bitcoin holders? Who cares, because it will be done for free by me or someone else the day after it is launched. Because the race for maximum adoption starts at that moment. Are you ready for the race to gain maximum adoption? Or are you still voting against physics?
A currency like Bitcoin needs to approach adoption that way. Bitshares needs maximum market cap. It's Apples compared to Oranges. I do think you need to introduce the idea to people buy whoever is doing some fork isn't going to maintain it.
Additionally if you give preference to the altcoins then you can have a market for altcoins. A lot of altcoin holders wont be happy at the idea that their holdings could be rendered worthless because of some power mad core Bitcoin devs.
Give the Bitshares airdrop to them. Bitcoin devs are the last people I would expect to see people offering to give shares to, but I suppose if you find some friendly devs then give it to them on a case by case basis.