I am generally with you on fairness issue. One measure of civilization is how fair and reasonable it is.
But your sentiment
here is propelled by the same greed that drives all of us including whales.
If you recognize that, you will cease hiding behind elaborate "reasoning" supposedly for universal fairness.
Better world is possible but a knot to untie that world is way bellow sky planes of currency.
Interesting but incorrect in this particular case.
I have worked out that I would probably capture less BB if it went fair launch POW than I would by linking my BTC addresses.
I also do not find my reasoning to be elaborate in this instance. It is there is black and white for anyone to examine.
Sometimes common sense is enough. In this case rewarding the wealthiest with the most and giving the poorest the least is enough. It is just the start in this case there are many levels upon which this fails compared to POW and even ICO.
"fair launch POW" will not be fair at all, it favors people with more hash power thus those with more BTCs (they can buy hash power at places like nicehash). ICOs even worse, it put priority to those who have more BTCs and satisfy first the greedy of the dev, instead of encouraging dev to do a better work. And many garbage coins and promises on the papaer are created this way.
Fair launch POW favours nobody at all. You all have to contribute the same effort to mine. The only real variable is cost of electricity and over a short mining period that does not mean much.
Of course if you have more money you can rent more hash? but you are actually being charged the same as anyone else. You are actually spending money you are not getting coins for free however rich you are. This method is giving you a LOT more FREE coins just because you are rich and have more BTC you do not have to spend your BTC to get it. So you are getting hugely unfair advantage at no cost or risk at all.
POW also will encourage the dev to work much harder because he can have 20% of the coin imagine that. However it must only be released to him for milestones over years and continued support.
There are NO downsides of POW against this Whales become Whales forever at no extra cost method.
This method suggested here was suggested in 2013 and was shouted down and crushed as it should be because BTC whales just end up owning everything forever in the crypto sphere.
POW with fair launch protocol and the measures I have mentioned in place is perhaps a fairness level 9 compared to a fairness level 2 for this method. The only thing more unfair is tonych just giving it to the very richest BTC owner and none for anyone else.
If this one slips through with this distributional method you can be sure there will be others to follow.
Please review all of my posts and think about it all. Then again form a solid argument of why you believe we should give BTC whales whale shares for free in new alt coins whilst giving the poorest crypto peasants the least.
There is essential no way to scam a POW launch with fair launch protocols in place. It is impossible. The devs share will be what is agreed and everyone else will battle on a fair playing field.
I have a new plan that could perhaps work.
How about we distribute 25% by linking BTC wallets. Then POW the remaining 75%. Then whales will still have some interest but not total monopoly to manipulate and pump and dump the markets.
POW will save this from so many ill fates it is setting itself up for.
Let's hope some people will see how this is not going to work out well and try to persuade tony to change or even modify this distributional model.