So it didn't go too smoothly, but I guess it was kinda expected to be a big chaos. Had to retry like 5 times until I finally got in, and was probably luckier than most. But then, just think about it:
- 10000 people hammering on one site in the same second is just bound to end up in a huge traffic jam. GoDaddy is not AmazonAWS, but it's a lot cheaper.
- "it's not fair": damn straight. That's what the rules said: harmonic series. That's not a fair distribution by definition. Also "but I was first/early": yeah, at your keyboard, but your internet protocol package was not at their servers.
- Basically, this was (probably intended to be) a huge lottery. For that, I think it went reasonably well given the resources one could expect from a bunch of people with ideas but no money.
So I'm cool.
Bunch of BS ... even if it's free, they promised fair chance to everyone. It's about principles. They could expect this since they wanted a "GLOBAL CURRENCY FOR EVERYONE WITH INTERNET ACCESS"
You can expect that there are millions of people with internet access.