There's a 15% promotion fund. Promotion is key so I hope the development team takes this into consideration and/or readers keep this idea fresh. NODE developers should try to feel more ambitious, maybe they're sitting on the next Yandex.
How much can the development team put aside for a give away on VK / Vkontakte?
Chinese money is great but it's not everything (and what stops them from moving onto a newer coin? It happened to past coins).
I think Eastern Europe, where the NODE team is located, is where NODE's true potential for user adoption and long term holding power is.
Case study: Yandex and VK are bigger than Google and Facebook respectively in geographic Eastern Europe (and Yandex and VK are worth billions, no?).
Bitcoin usage is so low in Eastern Europe that is it a very achievable goal to surpass them in usage within Eastern Europe. You say impossible? NOT. It's a guesstimate but I would be surprised if Bitcoin is even $50 million capitalization in Eastern Europe just due to how underutilized it is over there.
For the same reason why Yandex and VK surpassed their American counterparts in Eastern Europe, maybe NODE can surpass BTC in EE? Eastern Europeans just patronize their own tech startups.
Maybe Bitcoin has NSA backdoor - NODE in contrast is not 'compromised'.
I know Stellar did this Facebook give away but I think it looked very cheap / dirty when it was revealed that it was being spammed by people in India who were giving up their $10 stake in Stellar for $5 to westerners.
I would say NODE just ignore Facebook period and keep to VK / Vkontakte and only give away to profiles registered in Eastern Europe
(to obvious locals. Too many people residing in America or Asia with faked locations on VK looking for Slavic
whores brides and
prostitute penpals. You want to distribute this give away to actual Eastern Europeans).
