Not fudding, but..
I will have to also agree that mining will be disastrous for ICO shareholders (I have nothing invested yet). Most miners need to recoup for the renting, and get some for the future. On the day one price will tumble. Guess what will happen after that?. Unfortunately, once it is not profitable to mine anymore, it will be abandoned by the majority, leaving you with very cheap coin, a lot of disappointed investors = no traffic for the site. A lot of people see that now, and hove funds ready for after-mine period. I would be very cautions if I were you right now. As you stressed multiple times you have your reputation on the table, and it's not that you will not try to make it work, I am confident you will, but preconditions are truly bad here. To me it looks like the whole idea is heading to a disastrous end.
In the mean time, why can't you make it pure ICO? A lot of respected forum members are supporting you. There is still a couple of days to let people know there will be no POW. Whales will buy in, you'll get your ICO funds (you happy), investors happy (no huge dumps), you supply demand -> price goes up (even day-traders happy). ON TOP OF THAT VERY LIMITED SUPPLY. All these factors are making your coin a huge success a priori.
The only ones not happy in this scenario are mine-renting services.
And I have absolutely no idea why you want to make them happy.
Please reconsider your plan, you still have a lot of time. Wheals are spinning already. I do believe you can make it huge success story. Unless you don't want to of cause.
RAlex.
I like how you start your post.
Not fudding, but..
I have brought all big pools in. Can't just tell them that there wont be PoW. It wouldn't be fair from my end, I guess.
Traffic will be created very easy. Kingdom coin is just there to get some attention to AltcoinKingdom.com .
Like jdebunt stated, ICO investors should do their own research and not invest blindly.
My reputation doesn't have to do anything with markets, because I can't control the market prices, but what I can do is, create demand. Every logical being can understand that.
By owning that twitter account, it's not hard at all to create some decent demand.
By partnering up with other websites will bring us more traffic.
By hiring a good SEO will get us even more traffic.
That's what ICO funds are for.
Making KING a pure ICO now? That's not going to happen for any reason. I don't care if KING doesn't sell more than 10BTC to be honest. I am not here for the
BTC, but to advertise our website. It's a marketing plan. With gathered bitcoin I'll be able to promote/advertise the project easier.
Who said that I want to make mine-renting services happy?
You're jumping to that conclusion based on what exactly?
Miners wont be dumping for a loss, if there's a big amount of hashing power. There will be a lot of hashing power.
Even if it was a 100% ICO there should be dumps. That's how markets work. PoW is just giving it a bigger lifespan. That's how I see it.
EDIT: Each block will give 60 coins. There wont be crazy amounts of coins held by just one person, so he can dump and crash the markets.