It is so painful to watch such a good project getting down to the most trivial level by distributing bytes through a lottery. Among all the ways I could think at, this is probably the stupidest. It does NOT create adoption. It doesn't motivate anyone intelligent to do anything useful for the project, as only idiots with zero understanding of probabilities believe they can win at a lottery.
It pisses off 99.99% of the holders who never win - which means every week they feel they always lose. Thank you Obyte. Psychology anyone? Obyte may have superb coders, but certainly when it comes to notions of psychology it totally sucks. Zero. Nada. Nichts. ничeгo. 没什么
Other projects out there, like Hedera Hashgraph, have prepared accurate decades-long plans for distributing their coins and achieve decentralization. It's amazing how accurate such plans are (this doesn't mean that their plans don't have flaws, which they have, but at least it's a well thought plan)
I know your objection that you ALSO have good plans of distribution - tech bounties etc.
Fine, then stop with the stupid lottery nonsense and expand your bounty plans. Or try to onboard big institutions and fund them with bytes. Or if you really cannot think at new useful ways to distribute bytes then PAY with bytes people who CAN.
Since you are coders you can think only at making bounties for coders - how stupid can a genious be? Make bounties for the tasks you are totally incompetent for!
Have you ever heard of unknown unknowns? You seem to be rather blind towards the things you ignore - ie you even ignore that you ignore them. Otherwise you would have set bounty programs time ago to reward people able to do what you obviously can't. Or perhaps, as coders you intimately despise any skills which is not connected to coding - and this is why you'd pay bounties only for coders.
So childish.
So first of all please abolish this stupid, useless lottery which is harming the project by waisting bytes that could be spent usefully.
Second of all, pay me a bounty for having suggesting you one first right thing to do.
My two cents - or bytes.
The funds are not meant to give away to institutions, they are meant to be distributed to users. There is around 10% for Obyte Foundation and around 20% for distributing to users left. Just giving large amount to some business for free would look even worse to the community. They can afford to buy the Bytes like everybody else, GBYTE is on sale for quite cheap at the moment.
Do you have proof (actual data) that draw airdrop is harming the project or that's just your opinion?
* Newsflash, draw airdrop doesn't happen every week, it's after every 2 weeks. It is not pointless, it motivates people to hold the bytes, exactly what some people asked for, a motivation to hold.
* Developer contest for Autonomous agents happens also after every 2 weeks. Draw airdrop happens on one week, the developer contest the next week, which makes the distribution fund burn for these 2 distributions around 300 GB per week. This distribution is for people who actually do stuff, but there isn't many of those people, I guess nobody wants to do anything to get free bytes.
* Around 2-3 GB per day is distributed on World Community Grid for people who voluntarily help to do the science calculations
https://wcg.report/* Then there is grants program, which is not only for developers, anyone can write a proposal project document, but not many do. I guess it is too much work to actually do something that would benefit the community, everybody just wants stuff for free.
https://medium.com/obyte/byteball-grants-program-906a71b93d3c* There is also Real Name attestation, on which anybody can get their document verified and a private KYC profile into their wallet app. Distribution funds are used to pay Jumio for doing this, give reward to users for doing this and reward users who invite others to do it.
These 5 distribution methods are not the only ones, but they are probably the biggest at the moment. You can come up with better methods and share it with the community, but you probably won't come up with anything better (more viral and less abused)
https://medium.com/obyte/distribution-methods-revisited-we-need-you-b0a38800b722All I can see is that you think that somebody should just give you free bytes for actually not doing anything really, just for writing a random misinformed Bitcointalk post.
