I want this "coin" how do we earn it?
Thank you for your interest and question.
There are two ways to earn GadgetCoin:
1) By participating in the Proof of Consensus process by running your fully enabled peer node to process transactions and maintain the health of network. We estimate a fully enabled peer node that runs on a very cheap Linux/Windows virtual machine and allows the network enforce security measures against its process could earn at least 1000 GadgetCoin per year. There is an incomplete mathematical model that suggests that number and as we speak we are validating this calculation. Eventually the market will determine the coin price, but we intend to keep GadgetCoin's price at $5, we believe that's the price we, you and all coin holders should sell GDC to hardware integrators, which results in a reasonable earning for those users who run an honest peer node. A DigitalOcean box costs $5/month, and there will be a good ROI for participating in the GDC network.
2) You can earn GadgetCoin by receiving an interest rate for staking the coin.
Since the instant transaction processing is the main requirement for IoT and to achieve this there's no mining, these two above listed methods the way for users who do not wish to buy GDC on the free market to still earn coins.
Thank you, both sound good but when will distribution start? I have many contacts in crypto and if the project is right I always help adoption in numerous ways I just need to know how these coins will be handed out, is this an ICO?
Wow, thank you so much for offering to help us! At this stage I think the most important thing is if people like yourself, who have contacts and understand the market, help us get off the ground. In return for such help we are happy to invite the helpful community members and investors to the GDC Foundation where the major decisions about coin price, selling condition of the coin, hardware sales, distribution of the profit from hardware sales will be made.
There won't be an ICO if initial coin offering is defined as the process when the coin is sold prior to the release the software.
As the OP describes, hardware integrators will be able to buy the coin from the GDC Foundation in the open market. We need to decide prior to that how best to distribute the coin to the investors who are willing to put money into this venture. Over the last few days, especially today after GadgetCoin appeared in the news we received inquiries from investors about how to acquire GadgetCoin. It seems there are serious interest revolving around whether or not to allow brokers to sell the coin. Since quite a few investors are interested in working with us on this venture we have put forward this question to the GDC foundation: should we sell GadgetCoin for a very limited price to those who are willing to help move the project forward? It would probably be a good idea, as we don't mind having investors onboard who believe in this coin and help them realize a 500% profit. As we said in the OP on the 15th of December we want to start the network, and we would imagine prior to that we need to sort out the pre-sale conditions (if there will be a pre-sale at all). Please let us know what you think.
I like the idea that people who don't want to buy the coin still can get it by forging and staking.
I strongly suggest, no
ICO and no pre-sale please! If albert_mt want to sell it as a broker or Altcoin4life want to sell it in his investor circle prior to release that's none of our business, just like you could sell the project for your friends and family members prior to start to get angel investment, but once the coin is released it must be
very-very clear - the number of coins in the genesis block
- the number of coins sold for early stage investors, family members or friends (to angel investors) prior to the start
- the number of coins GDC Foundation has at the day of start lets say 15/12/2014
These three information are absolutely necessary to make a decision whether this coin worth any investment.
How the community can control the GDC Foundation exactly? I read somewhere there is a voting process, is it voting via smart contracts?