Giveaways end up lowering the price. the majority won't have enough, and will generally sell it as soon as the price moves.
I recommend other methods than a giveaway.
To give an extreme example, do you think Google, Microsoft, or Apple would "giveaway free shares" in order to get the stock price higher? When you give something away for free, your are lowering the value.
Right now is not the time to do PR on this coin anyway. We have a few more things to build and release, and test out in the community first don't we?
If this is a long term project, why are we worried about the price right now anyway? Can't we wait another month or so before we push things? People that are pushing price obviously bought some and they are hoping to sell part of their positionoff. Don't cater to those people who are complaining about the price this early. Their motive is obvious.
Opal isn't even on coinmarketcap yet. There is so much to do, let's take care of the early stuff before we have 100 extra people in here complaining about this, that, and the other thing. While it's quiet and we have a tight community this is the best time to finish doing the basics.
With regard to hiring PR experts, we really need to have more merchants accepting the coin. A PR can't pull a rabbit out of their butt based on ideas and future possibilities. Any PR person will tell you, give them solid things to promote.
Right now, people should be more worried about how much time they have left to buy more coins before the price does go up. There is always room to buy more at these rates.
Once its start spiking, you won't be able to afford more.
Don't worry, people are still drifting in here in the meantime. Every post we write gets us back up on the topic list.