Here's a suggestion on how to distribute Muniti.
Travel around to the village feasts this summer, work with the church, work with the local councils, work with the Community Chest Fund, work with both parties, work with the big hospitality players (hell, Hugo alone could put you on the map regarding tourism). Plan to give part of the premine away to tourists...hotels handing out paper wallets with checkins, or boat tours doing the same, etc, just as advertising.
But the main idea to set up a booth at the feasts and give out paper wallets on the spot. Bring a laptop or tablet with wireless, record names or ID numbers and check them for double dipping (there will be some regardless). It will be hot long days, it will be dealing with queues, but it'll be both cheaper and maybe less time consuming overall than a mass mailing, and most importantly, it'll be VISIBLE. First few attempts will probably suck until you get a process down, and with overlapping feast days you'll need more than one team. Bounty volunteers. This is Malta, there's real community here.
Maybe have a final distribution in Valletta during Science Week, same routine.
That'll get the coin out to the Maltese, but it'll also increase legitimacy with the people that you want accepting the coin. From there you can get tours and hotels and restaurants and dive shops to offer packages or discounts on prepaid Muniti transactions and you've got something...I wouldn't get hung up on point of sale transactions, but if they can accept the coin AND cash it out to BTC and then Euro and put it in a fiat account via SEPA without too much fuss, it'll work. Kraken comes to mind.
That is a very good idea, albeit with a noticeable caveat - it would require the premine to be re-worked so as to give less coins to the Maltese citizens and more to be given at stalls, hotels and so on. Also, it would be much more time-consuming than mass-mailing, as ~450,000 people picking their wallet would require a far greater logistic effort than mailing. The Science Week idea is a brilliant tip which we hadn't taken into consideration and which we will be regarding seriously. For now awareness and adoption of the coin is the first step towards integrating Muniti; informing the citizens that they'd have to cash out the coin to BTC and then to Euro might discourage them altogether. An informative campaign will be prepared soon so as to lay down everything in a user-friendly manner.
When why have this at all? Wouldn't the people of Malta support their own tourism already? I have friends who live in Malta and they seem to do quite well without crypto. Again, what is this going to accomplish other than being another pump and dump coin?
Did you even read the OP? The devs want NON-Maltese to be the biggest holders of the coin. The airdrop/maildrop of the premine is to raise local awareness and give a lot of people a vested interest in the coin's success, provide awareness of crypto in general, and provide another,
possibly profitable way, to fund a charity here that's a pretty big deal.
Will this be a pump and dump? Who knows? But knowing the Maltese and the culture here, I suspect it's not. This is Malta, somebody knows the dev team's mothers, and if it's a scam, the mothers would learn about it, and those guys would be
so ear-snatched.
I believe most of the answers asked in this topic have been answered concisely by Croak.
