Will there be a free distribution of tokens to the community? Maybe an airdrop?
read the whitepaper
up to 250 million people can take part in the airdrop
These figures are fantastic! Do the developers really plan the airdrop among so many people? I thought it was a mistake ....
i think artis has 3 main features/big goals that make it special:
1st goal: being able to offer everything that ethereum can do (even smart contracts written for ethereum can easily be adapted to run on artis, too) but without wasting energy due to POW mining
being the industry’s first full POS-secured coin and benefitting from the big advantages of the tendermint consensus protocol like faster block time, finality of transactions in seconds, and so on
2nd goal: have, as industry first, invented a new transaction type called ‘streaming’ that creates streems which are coins-per-time transaction types (this is optional – you can also use normal transactions, too) for some use cases, streems are clearly better suited than standard transactions. they also act as a solution to scalability issues by reducing the blockchain load. this way, it’s easy to handle more users on a blockchain
3rd goal: be the first coin that really aims to reach millions of users with the easy incentive that nearly all new coins are created by new people joining the network. we think that trying to give as many users as possible access to services on a blockchain by giving them a few coins so they are able to use the chain, is a great way to become one of the most widely used blockchains in the future
suppose in 2020, you start a new project that involves an ico and it creates a token and it provides users an interesting use case, what blockchain will you choose as your base?
one that requires users to buy native coins first (eth) to be able use your token, or
that blockchain that has millions of users who have native coins already to be able interact with your tokens and use your smart contracts?
i think ARTIS really can, by the mere strength of numbers, beat many of the earlier blockchains because in the end, it’s the amount of users that decide over the success or failure
and the first project doesn’t have to be the winner. i can think of many examples where later projects were much more successful than the initial ones:
myspace existed before facebook
ibm before apple
walmart before amazon
netscape before chrome
yahoo before google
nokia phones before android phones
and still, the solutions that came later did beat the earlier existing ones because they did attract more users and made life easier for them
i see no reason why artis could not be one of the top 50 blockchains by 2020
and i think this aim is very low; even being among the top 30 or top 20 could be within reach
