A BIG THANK TO defc0de for the post:
I did quick math of the new model for airdrop distribution as there where many others complaining about the unfair system. I used the average of around 7.6% rate of drop for the main airdrop participants (not the Deep points one) and used the data of the 16th round distribution for my calculations from this thread:
https://deeponion.org/community/threads/some-interesting-numbers-for-todays-airdrop.6228/#post-92779 (Some Interesting Numbers For Todays Airdrop)
Number of Payouts: 368
Sum Airdrop Amount: 225,000 ONIONS
Average Payout: 611.4130434783 ONIONS
Highest Airdrop Payout: 7,644.36458134 ONIONS (1250% of avg.)
Lowest Airdrop Payout: 7.6283368673 ONIONS (1.25% of avg.)
Number of Participants above avg.: 117
Number of Participants below avg.: 251
Number of Participants above 1000 Onions: 37
Number of Participants above 2000 Onions: 18
Number of Participants above 5000 Onions: 7
Number of Participants below 100 Onions: 93
Number of Participants below 50 Onions: 82
Number of Participants below 20 Onions: 65
Number of Participants below 10 Onions: 42
Calculation for round 16 + future drops:
Round 16
Top Holder - 100,583 ONIONS x 7.6% = 7.644.36 ONIONS received (the highest holder will have about 100K+ onions if he received 7k+ onions in a 7.6% rate.)
New Participant - 100 ONIONS x 7.6% = 7.6 ONIONS received
Round 17
Top Holder - 108, 227 x 7.6% = 8,225.27
New Participant from Round 16 - 107.6 x 7.6% = 8.17
New Entrant - 100 x 7.6% = 7.6
Round 18
Top Holder - 116,452.27 x 7.6% = 8,850.27
New Participant from Round 16 - 115.77 x 7.6% = 8.79
New Entrant - 100 x 7.6% = 7.6
Total After 3 Rounds:
Total Top Holder - 24,719.9
New Participant from round 16 - 24.56
New entrant each week - 7.6
With these data at hand, we can clearly see from the calculations that the distribution leans more towards the large holders and early participants as there is a humongous gap between them and the post 16th airdrop participants (a thousand times more). It gets even worse as the coins they receive from the future airdrops would be multipliers for the succeeding ones. If this goes on, the coins would only be held by a handful from the top (above 1000, 2000, 5000 = which is just about 62 people in total).
Now my question is, is this a healthy situation for Deep Onion in general? In my opinion NO, 62 people owning a very large percentage (which still grows as the weekly airdrops come) is a worse scenario than the hundreds of bitcoin whales that manipulate the BTC market right now.
The airdrop should have been the solution for a fairer share for each and the vector for general mass adoption, but with the current system, it looks like it would make the DO whales a larger whale and the new participants would be left with dust particles of the Deep Onion supply.
I hope the mods and people here in the DO community can shed light to this. Hoping the best for you all.
Thank you for reciting this post. Sadly, I dropped out of DO Application for the first time and do not intend to buy 100 Onions just to take part at the airdrop. This is quite unhealty for the future of the coin, but I guess it will still gain a big value because of the already existing amount and the signature bounty.
