OK, I am finished tinkering with my new spreadsheet that maps out the Lisk ICO progress on a day-to-day basis. It's not perfect but everything lines up well enough for now. Take a look at the final form:
Lisk ICO Daily Donations https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1j1sOFyPa3ZPr6QuG7pzuJtw9DHy4BNuoWw5Iu9N9MiQ/edit?usp=sharingFrom an accounting standpoint, there are four sources of BTC being poured into Lisk every day. One of these are "real" and the other three are "being created out of thin air".
This is not a scam, this is how the real world operates. Every business in the world has "infrastructure expenses", "advertising expenses" and "management expenses" that exist and have to be paid for outside of their "cash in the bank". So does Lisk. This is all going exactly as everybody agreed to in the Terms and Conditions you read before donating any "real" BTC. The "real" BTC are of course the actual BTC donations, and these are currently around 64.4% of total market cap - a very healthy number, I think.
The other three categories of "effective" BTC being "created" within Lisk are the promised early participation bonuses, the Crypti transfer, and the Lisk Foundation treasury. As of today there are no more early participation bonus BTC being "created", so for the rest of the ICO there will only be additions to market cap by the other two.
Ultimately the financing of the "created" BTC listed here comes through acceptance by the public of Lisk as a strong coin that will deliver new tech. Such acceptance comes at the exchanges when we get there. Once the market judges the future potential of Lisk and sets a price per Lisk above the launch price - THAT'S when all of these "created" BTC become "real".
And that's gonna happen.
Making sausage is not a pretty process but in the end it tastes great. I don't think any other cryptocoin has been this open with its numbers behind the curtains. If you mapped out the ICO of every other coin in this manner, including Ethereum, I think few if any of them would have numbers that look as good as these. I believe Lisk can hold its head high about and be very proud about how they have organized their ICO.
Of course there are also still the other three spreadsheets I've made available all along:
How Many Lisk You Will Receive For One Bitcoin (BTC) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iOEdaRnBmSAO5miW7xYheeYUgo5wL9l9BONw6x21nQg/edit?usp=sharingHow Many Lisk You Will Receive For One Crypti (XCR) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GwWKK7bpjYTxtQRIq_l2xiKI9rEOpTU1oTt0q3C6Mc8/edit?usp=sharingThe Satoshi Price For One Lisk https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Q2MJ25_bK5Yi60FYohYCUEkujUtL5c0P1dOdlDMPMBI/edit?usp=sharing