Warning: the "Correlation between Blocktime and DECENT ICO Bonus" is bullshitAccording to decent's website
https://decent.ch/correlation-blocktime-decent-ico-bonus/Therefore, all the transactions conducted during the lifespan of the final block will be considered valid and the 50% bonus will be applied. However, only the last block of the ten million will be affected this way. The following block will only have a sale of 10%, applying the first week sale. That is even if the transaction has been executed within the first day.
Since Decent asks you to create an account and allow you to send Bitcoins from an exchange, it will give you a specific address, and will transfer the BTC you sent to the main address. There will therefore be two transactions, the one you placed to their specific address, and the one where they transfer the coins you sent to the multisig. Now, we are lucky, they did some testing on the
multiig address, so let's look at a typical transaction
Here we have a test transfer from a specific address to the multisig:
test transaction.
Do you notice something strange? That's right, the transaction free is 0.00001914 BTC,
this is a low priority transaction fee, which means that under high traffic conditions (like when there is a rush to be first to send money to an ICO), that transaction will likely be put in the backlog until there is enough space in a block.
Now let's look at the test transaction to the specific address, before the balance was transfered to the multisig:
here.
See the transcation fee they set? 0.0001243 BTC. Now, that's a better fee than what Poloniex is using!
Why the double standard you will ask?
That's the trick! No matter how high a fee you use to send the coins to the specific address assigned to you for the crowdsale, your payment will be forwarded by Decent to the multisig address with a shity subpar transaction fee. Of course a large whale transaction in the same block will have to have scaled fees and will be much more attractive to the miners. So no matter what, their large investor partners gets to have a 50% bonus, and the small guys with fight for the bread crumbs with most pople ending up with a 10% bonus they didn't appove of There will be big s*** in this thread and any subsequent self-moderated threads if they screw the investors over with funny stuff. I am sure there will be blockchain analysis afterwards to pick up any manipulations and if they are caught out it will be the end of their project as most of crypto is based on trust.