I like this project and I bought some Factoids. I'd like to buy more but I'm concerned that the Factoid price will tank as soon as they hit the market in May. Most (all?) other crowdsale coins have followed a similar pattern. Any thoughts on this?
Also, will Factoids be stored on the BTC blockchain like XCP? Will a wallet be released for them by the time they are issued?
4,000,000 Factoids have been sold so far, you need to also consider how many there will be in circulation and how many converted to Entry Credits thus used.
Factoids use is to be converted to entry credits to allow access to Factom, that is their main value, people may trade, if it goes up or down is out of our control.
As per the wallet, work is in progress to implement Factom's own solution, we'll release news and updates as we go along.
We have had interest in supporting Factoids from exchanges and are open to allow as many options as possible, make it easy to use them.
Thanks for the questions.
What I find slightly bizzare that no one seems to be batting an eyelid over is the ease at which you've managed to say to investors on top of all the money you pool together for us, we're entitled to an equal amount of the tokens we're selling! So for the 4,000,000 Factoids sold, 8,000,000 will be created, effectively saying that if we assume Factoids hold their value, you double everything you raise at the end to personally enrich devs and early investors.
In the history of notable crowdsales on this forum, J.R. Willet invested a substantial amount of his own money to buy his mastercoins, the counterparty guys invested a substantial amount of their own money to buy their counterparty tokens, same with David Irvine and co with maidsafe. Joel Dietz I believe tried to do something similar in a more stealthful way by showing on a pie chart that early investors (prior to the crowdsale) would be awarded a set number of swarm at a rate about 10% higher than crowdsale participants and this would amount to just 3% of their $21m funding goal. However because they didn't reach anywhere near their funding goal, the amount of swarm given to pre-crowdsale investors represented a much higher %age causing a revolt from disgruntled investors. I'm pretty sure the outcome was that Joel and co burnt a large amount of their coins by sending them to an un-spendable address.
You're taking all the bitcoins, then all the tokens to the value of those bitcoins on top! I'm not trying to troll your sales thread but seems very wrong to me and an insulting proposition to put forward to investors.