I agree that an airdrop has too many negative connotations to produce a net positive for investor confidence.
I disagree that the skewed day 1 rewards are a non-issue, simply because it's evident that a number of people think it is an issue. Whether anyone *should* be bothered by the skew is irrelevant; investment decisions are made based on what people think, not based on what they should think. If there's a stigma surrounding the day 1 mining, and there's potential to mitigate that stigma, then that potential should be explored. Obviously you have to consider whether you're doing more harm than good in trying to address a perceived problem. If action is taken to artificially increase the coins in circulation beyond the existing reward structure, it needs to be really thought through and done properly. And it may be that it's too risky to be worth trying. In my mind, increasing mining rewards gently would be a low risk approach, and may have other benefits (greater mining adoption), but I haven't fully thought it through.
I disagree.
There is very few complaining, and yet a very large number of ivnestors.
As always, the ones complaining will be loudest, but this hasn't been a major issue, and every time question appeared, it has been asnwered.
Distribution happened, end of story.
Every single altcoin which gets mined a lot in the first 24-48h, gets dumped as soon as it hits the exchange or it's pumped. Those who mined a lot already dumped it.
Even the theft of BTC from Poloniex and hard dump of DRK bought with this stolen coins couldn't destroy the price. There are no big bag holders created in the first 48h anymore, end of story.
Anymore tinkering with the rewards, airdrop, etc. will cause a disaster.
In the past weeks I bought a large number (5 figures) of coins, and got a large number of people into Dark (they total several times what I have).
Any mention of airdrop or other silly idea and we're out.
Do you think we would have done that if we even remotely believed there are big bag holders waiting to dump? No, evidence (price) tells otherwise.
This coin has a great thing going, don't ruin it.
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