Guys, what initial distribution do you prefer more: Airdrop + big premine or ICO with a very low cap - let's say 500,000 USD for 1-2 years of development and small premine for further support & development of the project, when team will be out of ICO funds?
It's not a binary choice. It would seem the best approach is a hybrid one--get your coins into as many hands as possible:
for example, a new coin could do:
- 50% ICO
- 25% mined over, say, a 1 year period
- 20% airdrop (on bitcoin and ethereum holders)
- 5% for development
Yep, this approach sounds very fair. It reminds me the way chosen by Decred. But they didn't have ICO at all, but:
4% premine for development
4% airdrop to 4000 participants (for initial decentralized distribution)
92% mined over 50 years
So after launch the network is already pretty decentralized and there is still a lot of space for newcomers.