A lot of discussion on airdrops has been going on recently and I would like to add a new twist.
1) I like the half life concept... 50% drop every month until balance is below 1 BIP.
2) Unclaimed air-drop funds should be sent to developers.
3) Altcoin owners are likely more valuable than BTC owners because BTC-only owners are usually altcoin snobs.
4) I recommend honoring all of the top 10 bitcoin-based alt-coins proportional to market cap. This will get the widest possible airdrop.
5) Don't honor coins with large pre-mines...
If you set this up right, the developers can avoid any accusations of 'pre-mine' because everyone had an opportunity to claim it, unclaimed funds go to devs... this also solves the problem of dead coins being honored.
First where will the resources for the airdrop come from? If there must be a dilution of our shares then of course I don't support it. I'm not against the idea of an air drop and I actually wanted something like this to happen all along, but I think perhaps do it more strategically.
I suggest you pick the coins which benefit charitable causes as the top choice. These might not have a lot of volume but it's still got a lot of passionate people.
Also coins like Blackcoin, which might not be important coins but which have active communities who you know will be all over Bitshares and who have the talent for pumping coins up. Also if possible try to give to the more decentralized networks, so I agree with avoiding premined coins unless it's the case that it's for a charitable cause or it's an airdrop coin and there is where exceptions can be made.
The charities would include computing for good (BOINC). This is not typically a Bitcoin thing and that is good because it's important to reach communities outside of Bitcoin and try to get people who are trying to solve real world problems instead of just day traders.
Please be strategic about it. Maybe give some to holders of Ether, Mastercoin, Counterparty as well and give preferential treatment to them and perhaps in exchange for future cooperation.
https://www.computingforgood.org/
I need to find the thread and reread the claiming process works. Do you get to claim an amount proportional to your balance ?
10 altcoins sounds quite ambitious. I suppose if you remove premines then we avoid non-bitcoin forks. I would suggest that if I3 (?) is willing to pay for this work, then you even out the amounts given to each coin a bit. btc just dwarfs the other communities.
One thing I can say about a lot of the altcoin holders is that they're loyal true believers. Those coins have been on a steady downward trend. If people have held on to them, then that is the type of loyalty you want.
Choose the altcoins carefully. If any of us actually are from different altcoin communities for example then we could create threads announcing the airdrop.
I still think in addition to this, someone should set up a mining pool so altcoin miners can get payout in Bitshares when the time comes. That alone along with the airdrop will be excellent marketing because you'll get the miners and long term holders attention.