That 50k giveaway was a stupid idea. get rich people for free .... what's the deal ?
It is easy to say that now that the DigiByte is on an exchange, has a great deal of hash, and is generally doing well. You forget, however, that in the beginning everyone proclaimed this was "just another sh*t coin". Frankly, those who believed from the beginning, and have participated from the beginning, took a risk by pointing their hash power, investing money, and spending time promoting DigiByte.
It is very easy to point fingers, make judgements, and such non-sense now that the crow has flown. I do not remember there being any restrictions on who could ask for the giveaways or bounties. Might be that someone should learn to participate without the guarantee of immediate gain, and the appreciation, monetary or otherwise, might follow.
i said that 50k giveaway was a shitty idea because 50k at 1 MH/s require at least 4 days of mining. it was a shitty idea also without an exchange site. it's too much compared with difficulty and blocksize..
No one knows if things would have turned out the way it did without that giveaway. It created a major buzz right away, and it did not take four days to mine 30K Digi at launch. You are comparing today with two weeks ago
I too think they should have distributed the giveaway between more people, but it was far from shitty.
