Airdrops are inefficient token distribution mechanisms since they don’t measure how valuable of a contributor a token recipient is
Why reward a token to someone if they aren’t going to contribute to the network?
We need to be better than just rewarding early users
In 1995, when Netscape went public, there were 16 million internet users in the entire world. By 2000, just five years later, there were 361 million internet users. By the time Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook in his dorm room in February 2004, there were 745 million people on the internet. By the end of the next year, there were a billion.
You can crowdfund / raise capital directly through your blog posts. ✨
Millions of dollars have already been raised this way via @viamirror, and they've recently opened their platform for everyone.
Here are 9 examples ranging from $60K to > $3 million:
In the third example, the author mentions the last method of slowing down the Evaporative Cooling Effect—giving high status to special contributors of the community. High value participants have recognition and reputation in the community, and others respect them, so they have no incentive to leave the community, which decelerates the process of Ev... See more