Bottom line here, Auroracoin was not created to be perfectly distributed. It has always been an experiment to create a real cryptocurrency economy and to see if and how that would function along with seeing what obstacles would be on the way, be they legal, social, technical or whatever else that might pop up. The only important factor of the airdrop was to reach as many people as possible. Even if you would cut the claim number for the first phase of the airdrop by half or hell let's just go with one third, you still have a higher % of Icelandic people holding Auroracoin than any other nation can say for any cryptocurrency (Bitcoin included).

I love cryptocurrencies and the disruption they can possibly bring to the current cancer of a monetary system that we are forced to live with now. I love the idea that maybe some day I can securely store the value I create for myself and my family and it will not thin out in front of my eyes. When it really dawned on me what potentials are stored in cryptos, I saw for the first time that we as individuals are presented with this amazing opportunity to take the power of decision away from corrupted bank institutes and a government that is either enabling, impotent or indifferent to this biggest threat to our financial security. I do not speak for others here but as far as I'm concerned that is the main reason I have spent more time than I have available on cryptocurrencies for the past two years.

Why I decided to work on and support Auroracoin?
I do believe that Iceland is the perfect place to kick start a cryptocurrency economy. It has all the factors. Complete bank crash in 2008 making the public here extremely aware of the fatal flaws of the current monetary system and the corruption within the banks, we have been under capital controls since the crash in 2008 and it has been established by the central bank that the public will not get an exception from the capital controls to buy cryptocurrencies, Iceland has the highest Internet usage in the world and the people here are very technically inclined. So to start a cryptocurrency economy in Iceland you would need to create a cryptocurrency that is either distributed to the Icelandic public or is purchasable in large quantities for ISK. Auroracoin has already been largely distributed to the Icelandic public and more importantly it got massive attention throughout the nation. Regardless if people understood it or not it got attention and people know the name. This is why I believe that Auroracoin has still one of the best opportunities among cryptos to get actual daily use instead of just using it as a token for day trading.

All the airdrops were rigged , it's the name of the game but with AUR the right bagholders ended up being dumped on and they trying to revive the coin to the benefit of all holders. Look at asia coin as an example, nothing is being done and people lost money and sitting with coins that never be worth anything.

Yes, every person with a functioning brain knows this was rigged like every other airdrop, AUR devs tried to hide it better but lets look to the future and lets see what this team can do to restore faith in AUR even if it means making the original developer extremely rich.

Since the appearence of Adamastor at this forum, I am following the discussions between the devteam and him with interest. Adamastor understands the need for crypto currency for Africa and has put in a lot of time to educate the south african people about Auroracoin. On the other side we have a devteam that concentrates on the original purpose of Auroracoin; Iceland.
From the beginning, I had the idea, Adamastor choose the wrong coin. It is very difficult and confusing to try promote a nation coin in another country. I think, Adamastor makes a big mistake here and I am really pity for him his efforts aren't rewarded enough. Until now, I never talked about it, because I didn't want to talk on this forum about any other altcoin. Now, when I see LTEX making Adamastor an offer to change Aurora for NLG, I decided, I could post my ideas as well. For me, it's very clear that Digibyte is absolutely the coin Adamastor has to choose to promote in South Africa. In fact, Digibyte is just as Aurora and NLG  a coin that is fundamentally designed to be used for payments.
Digibyte has an extremely hard working devteam and isn't designed to become a coin for one nation. Jared Tate the founder of Digibyte, was one of the key speakers at south african bitcoin conference held at 3 and 4 march, just one week ago.
Adamastor, I really think your efforts will be rewarded a lot more when you offer your help to Jared Tate. The DGB devteam always asks the community to help and is very thankfull for it.
I am not gonna post any links about DGB, everyone knows how google works.

I personally, own as much AUR as DGB, so it's not that I am promoting DGB. But the efforts of Adamastor on one side and the ideas of the devteam on the other side, gives me the idea that we have a misfit here. When two parties, both doing an excellent job, don't match, it's probably the best they seperate.

Adamostar, just in case you want to make a change from Aurora coins to DGB without losing money by trading fees and differences between buy- and sellprices, you can always ask me to sell Aurora for DGB.

Adamastor, I also would like to say something about NLG. For you, it's probably impossible to figure out what happened at NLG. I am just like you, an idealist, who sees the benefitsof crypto for all the people in the world. For centuries the normal people have been financially raped by banksters, western unions etc...This must come to an end. From the start, I followed all 3 coins, Aurora, DGB and NLG. I liked all 3 of them and I think all 3 have a chance to survive, allthough all 3 coins differ a lot. NLG has an unsolvable problem in my opinion. This problem is Rijk and Geert. They tend to run NLG in a form of dictatorship. The guys that really did a good job for NLG, like LTEX, BIOMIKE and ny2cafuse were never rewarded. So now, NLG is still a coin with a community with hard working people run by 2 devs who make huge mistakes, in my opinion.

Actually, the situation you are in now with Aurora coin has some similarity with the situation LTEX, BIOMIKE and ny2facuse had with NLG. With focus on "some". Don't get me wrong to think that I compare these 3 guys with the NLG devs. The similarity is that there are different opinions between you and the devteam and sooner or later we will see that a lot of good efforts will not have the result that they could have had.

We are first now starting to really go forward with promoting Auroracoin in Iceland. The reason we haven't been pushing the project much here is we wanted to have a solid base first and eliminate as many uncertainties as we possibly could before we started to introduce the project to others here in Iceland. The reason why is simple, Iceland is quite small and getting major attention is relatively easy if you know what to do. So we did not want to go forward and get the nation's attention just to blow that opportunity on bad media because we weren't ready.

Some of the things that we knew had to be in place before we could really move forward were things like the premine burn, ISK / AUR exchange, Legally established entity in Iceland to represent Auroracoin (Auraráð - Icelandic Auroracoin Foundation) and more secure and stable blockchain. This we have done along with many other things that have to be in place.

Now when we have these things in place and we have a solid group of like minded people who are in this project for the long term, we are ready to start promoting Auroracoin in Iceland. This will be a long and difficult uphill battle that will be serious hard work. This is why we are planning to try and get as much initial attention as we can and make the nation Auroracoin aware.

This is where the idea for the bus stop advertisements comes in. For some of you this might sound strange but the fact is that here in Reykjavík we don't have much tradition for posters and billboards to be spread all over the place. Surely we have but it's just not that much. If you were to count the advertising posts and billboards in Reykjavík you would without a doubt see that the bus stop hangers would be the majority. That is why we are thinking to have a 100 bus hanger campaign in Reykjavík for one week that leads up to us opening the ISX exchange. And at that time we will use all our little tentacles to pull all the strings we possibly can with everyone we know to get as much media coverage as we possibly can. Though nothing is guaranteed we like to hope that the first cryptocurrency exchange in Iceland would get some media coverage.

So the idea here with the bus stop ads is to try and have them as simple as possible. Just huge white poster with just the Auroracoin logo and name (Nothing has been decided regarding this so I'm just pitching my idea personal of the posters) and nothing else (maybe a simple phrase and a QR in the corner). The reason I would not like to have anything else is that this will get attention. Beside all the people who will see this because they are taking a bus from that hanger or sitting in a bus that stops at the hanger then there are over 6million car drive by for these 100 hangers in this week. People will see this huge white poster that completely separates itself from everything else in the environment when they drive past it and it will burn into their subconscious. People who notice this will be curious because they don't see anything more there, they will want to know more. I don't really think you need to tell anyone here that he needs to go to auroracoin.is to know more about Auroracoin, that is pretty much a given. So bottom line we are not parading anything nor would it be a propaganda in any way. Just simply making people aware and curious for the real exposure we want to get when we take the Exchange live.

For those that are interested, here are more detailed information about the routes being offered with traffic numbers.

Route A http://www.afa.is/index.php?option=com_a-adallisti&Itemid=49#6
Route B http://www.afa.is/index.php?option=com_a-adallisti&Itemid=49#7
Route C http://www.afa.is/index.php?option=com_a-adallisti&Itemid=49#8
Route D http://www.afa.is/index.php?option=com_a-adallisti&Itemid=49#9

The primary target of the first bus-stop campaign is to create awareness of the brand Auroracoin. The more info on that poster, the more distraction people get from the brand itself. So the first run will be just the logo and the name (perhaps a small www.auroracoin.is in the bottom right corner).

After the first campaign there will follow a lot of media attention on the release of the exchange. During that campaign we will start another run with the slogan that will be something similar to "Empowering Financial Freedom". There will perhaps also be a QR code on it that links to our site.

These posters are there to envision the brand and to support other media campaigns, they are not there to sell the whole story in one single blow.

Hmm, let's see:

NLG dev team:

Rijk: Dutch
Malcolm: South Africa
Jason: South Africa
Frank: Germany

Any more stupid uneducated remarks?

WIll South Africa become the top country for Aur ?

Keiser's recommendations? What's he said?

Financial or mammalian?

Doesn't matter... on both accounts yes.  Native to the area.

-Fuse

http://www.iceland.is/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland

http://www.visiticeland.com/

... in case people were interested in the country we're developing for.

-Fuse

This is a strong signal. Do you believe in fate adamastor?

If this does take off in Iceland, it'll just be another option for payment. Just like debit cards, money transfers, etc.

Don't count on it completely replacing a government issued currency, but it would be nice if Iceland's government recognizes it as an official alternative form of payment.

They will need investors from the US , Europe and China to support them. We will keep the coins safe until they can buy from us at 100 times the price which is fair value.

15.33 billion USD ‎GDP in 2013, divide this by 10 million coins (future amount)  = $1500 per coin.

It's a decentralized coin, who gives anyone the right to decide who the coin is intended for? adamastor is promoting it and making the best of the situation, what if this never works out in Iceland at least we can have African support.

I DO.

ffs, don't you understand this experiment is to try to make it a local currency in Iceland ?!?

if you just hype it up and let it fall again, NOTHING is gained. No insight, no result.