Gearing up for our whitepaper release, I wanted to share some thoughts on initial coin distribution and get some feedback on what is the best way to distribute if the goal is widespread reception
From the little research ive done, I found this Princeton study
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x23C1sQg6wQ that shows that the higher the market cap of a coin, the greater the distribution.
With that in mind it looks like the best methods in order are
1.POW -- widest distribution - but is it the fairest? Favors people with the ability to purchase large hashing power
2.ICO (where the entire/large allocation is released) - think EOS,IOTA,ADA
3.IFO (initial free offering) - like Auroracoin, where all the users had to do was link their facebook and iceland id
4.IBO (initial bounty offering) - Raiblocks and other faucet types, they require different levels of action to receive the airdrop allocation
5.Fork Airdrops - BitcoinCash - most of the allocation is given to the holders of the original chain (in this case it was Bitcoin)
I'm POSITIVE ive over simplified and missed methods, so please -- list more and share your thoughts on which lead to the widest distribution