The airdrop was donne by using the kennitala ID system and moving bytes of computer generated data
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KennitalaThe initial hype arround AUR just before the airdrop when 31.8 of them worth 600$+, attracted 30.000+ airdrop requests.
After the dump the number of second airdrop request went down to 5000+
And the 3'rd airdrop request went even lower to 2500+
Because the value of the airdop coins is so low now, they have no use in merchant transaction. It's something that you just trade if you have a taste for risk or you firmly believe in the concept propose by AUR coin.
But with the newly dedicated foundation that holds a marketing and development budget, this will change in time.
Do you know what the developer did to advertise AUR to the people in Iceland. I am part of the Guldencoin community and as you can see with our distribtion stats under 2000 people have claimed with a population of 17 million in the Netherlands. The coin has also just turned 1 year old and has plenty merchants, been on the media and even RT but only 1918 people have claimed. Any tips or ideas the AUR developer used would be welcomed.
https://distribution.guldencoin.com/#/statsSomething that is a concern is that EFL with the same coin supply also claimed around 40 000 people in the Netherlands claimed but that was proven as a scam as the coin creators got caught out by having bigger sells in EFL on the exchanges then was meant to be in supply at the time. Now there has been community takeover and they also got a foundation built. Looks like AUR going to head in same direction.
I know some members in Guldencoin have invested in AUR so came to check it out so please let me know how they advertised and I can give this information to our team.
Before 1stage airdrop, the number of coins in circulation where quite small. That situation made possible for the speculators to inflate the price of AUR to a insane level, for a new born coin. So the existence of AUR went viral in the cryptocurrency community, the national and international press.
Why 10% of Icelandic population participated in the 1'st airdrop?
1) Gold rush, free money falling from the sky
2) The hope of people in AUR fulfilling it's main proposition "breaks the shackles of a fiat currency"
So i think it's less of a good marketing and more of good luck.
Also Reykjavík it's a small city and moist of the Icelandic population lives in. Easy to talk with each other
For me this guy did the best AUR coin marketing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS-0EuTwa9Q
