So it didn't go too smoothly, but I guess it was kinda expected to be a big chaos. Had to retry like 5 times until I finally got in, and was probably luckier than most. But then, just think about it:
- 10000 people hammering on one site in the same second is just bound to end up in a huge traffic jam. GoDaddy is not AmazonAWS, but it's a lot cheaper.
- "it's not fair": damn straight. That's what the rules said: harmonic series. That's not a fair distribution by definition. Also "but I was first/early": yeah, at your keyboard, but your internet protocol package was not at their servers.
- Basically, this was (probably intended to be) a huge lottery. For that, I think it went reasonably well given the resources one could expect from a bunch of people with ideas but no money.
So I'm cool.
Bunch of BS ... even if it's free, they promised fair chance to everyone. It's about principles. They could expect this since they wanted a "GLOBAL CURRENCY FOR EVERYONE WITH INTERNET ACCESS"
You can expect that there are millions of people with internet access.
And didn't you get your fair chance? You pressed F5, but some random internet router in between decided to drop your packets due to congestion whereas others got their request through. So it goes. And if they erased it all and did it again, why should it be different?
I may be naïve, but here is how I imagine what happened (and no, me lazy-ass didn't even read the whitepaper): a bunch of pimple-faced teenagers have this idea of a decentralised instapayment system because everyone uses PayPal only because PayPal sucks less than everything else (fees and rules and shit). So they have one choice:
- Go to the next VC firm, have them enter on 30 % of projected potential, pump them up, exit, bang, everybody's happy (except PayPal). Unfortunately, they are teenagers from Los Alamitos instead of Caltech top honours graduates, and they don't even have a PR person in their team, so that's a non-option.
- To form a usr base, give the shit out for free. Somehow. Anyhow. Hey, there's Facebook. Nice user base. Does that work? Hey, it just might. No way knowing without trying.
So they cough up the $200 or whatever to rent a GoDaddy dedicated server for a month, test the setup a little, and make an airdrop (remember, that means getting shit for free). Hither goeth nothing. Big bang. Lots of wailing. Uh-oh, better had hired that arts class dudette for some more advanced PR. But oh well.
Instead of wailing, we should be waiting. Chances are that the devs are, in the end, a bunch of losers, and it was all for nothing. Of course, there's that tiny chance that what we've got here is the next PayPal. The devs hold 12 % of the token supply, so in this case they would get filthy rich. Deservedly. A bunch of other people would also get filthy rich (such as Mr/Ms 10bn). Undeservedly. Oh well, such is life.
tl;dr: there is a 99.99 % chance it's all for nothing, and a repeated air drop would IMO not change that. So let's all relax now and check out the next new coin that comes along…
