The whole Blackshares crypto-merger idea was based on some thinking I had about economic allegiances a while ago. The idea was solidified when I had a private conversation with someone else who was talking about crypto-mergers and BlackDoge. I thought BlackDoge was good marketing but the technologies didn't pair up as well as what Blackshares could be.
The point is that PoS communities share an interest and should begin merging chains so that all PoS communities can update to the best technology (DPoS). The way to get this to happen is to approach every PoS community which reaches a certain market cap, volume, and has a vibrant community, and do what I tried to do for the Blackcoin community.
Offer to make a "shares" franchise for their community. Offer 50/50 split. Offer to have developers in our community make the fork for them and handle everything. All they have to do is market and (sell) the technology in their community.
The result was supposed to be that DPoS would become the default technology for Proof of Stake communities until something better. Blackcoin needs to update it's technology to DPoS so it was a perfect strategic opportunity and still is to approach them offering to make a Blackshares franchise for them. Even if you don't get their permission someone from our community should use the Bitshares toolkit to make Blackshares and split it 50/50 between communities just to protect our own community from hostile forks.
So I'm still promoting the idea that the best marketing strategy we can have is to convert every altcoin community we can to DPoS and split it 50/50. This would benefit us and them because we'd have more volume to every chain and they'd have better technology.
But I do not advocate doing it with just random coins or with Proof of Work. It should be targeted and there should be a method to our madness even if to the outside it seems random. The effect this could have (these Airdrops) could be to make people who have PoS coins hold onto them in hopes that there will be Airdrops. That could benefit the adoption of PoS as a whole as we don't Airdrop to communities who have values which promote inflation but to the communities which promote deflation.
That would mean no Airdrop to Freicoin, Litecoin, Bitcoin, unless they convert to Proof of Stake.
If we don't do things like this, someone will, and they will benefit greatly from sitting at the head of the round table with all those loyal "altcoin" knights
The Proof of Work communities generally don't want Proof of Stake technology. If Bitcoin core devs and the mining elite wanted it they have more brain power than any other community and would have it.
The Litecoin community has plenty of brain power as well and there is no evidence they want Proof of Stake. All you're going to do if you try to force it on them is make it look like you're creating another scam coin like Bytecoin.
Dogecoin already has a Dogeshares or Shibecoin
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=595767.0nd it didn't work too well. No one switched to the PoS and it ended up being treated as a scam.
My point is you cannot change the culture of a community just by offering superior technology. Miners don't like Proof of Stake unless they can mine it. Blackcoin is the only community along with Peercoin where the miners seem to want Proof of Stake and a technological upgrade.
If you try to push technology without the support of the core devs and demographics of each community you approach then like Stan said it will be viewed as an attack. You have to also take into account the distribution of the coins as well.
Blackcoin actually has fair distribution while Bitcoin and Litecoin are becoming less fair every day due to the way mining is set up. Why would you want to avoid coins which are centralized, which aren't fairly distributed, which don't value Proof of Work technology, which don't even want Mastercoin or Counterparty built on top of it?
The only way I could see doing an Airdrop to Bitcoin and Litecoin would be to do it in a way which doesn't benefit the early adopters of Bitcoin or Litecoin, but which somehow benefits random addresses. Essentially make it into a sort of lottery where people have to keep entering it to win shares in the Byteshares DAC. You might even be able to get people to pay a small fee for each lottery ticket to fund the development of the DAC.
This way you reset the mining to 0 and start all over again in such a way that the elite don't gain any advantage from switching to DPoS. Only the people who buy a lot of tickets and who are truly lucky would benefit and it would shuffle the deck.