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However I can tell you that there will be an upper cap [for the second stage] so that there won't be 500btc. [...] We will send an "ok" back to you first ([...] if upper cap is not reached yet).
I hope this process will be acceptable for most of you. I would see the upper cap at 250BTC.
imo setting an upper cap for the second stage strongly contradicts the following ideas:
Fairness & Transparency
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We want to spread and split EXO as much as possible among the community! [...] A widley spread initial handover (achieved by the 1.5 BTC / 50 LTC cap) prevents from someone (and from us) dumping large amounts of EXO once it hits an exchange!
NXT vs eXocoin
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We don't want to blame NXT. It has great innovation! What we are concerned of is that about 75 people are holding the vast majority of the whole crypto. That is what we
want to change with eXocoin.
The wider it spreads the better!moreover an upper cap of 250 btc means that an early bird investoer would still get the 1,81-fold for the same money as a second stage investor assmuming the cap will be reached, which i personally don't consider a fair distribution. i mean 81% more coins for the same investment only because someone has been an early bird, come on. however it is clear that an early bird investors should get more for his money than a second stage investor, something around 20% sounds reasonable and fair to me. but achieving that number by using an upper cap for the second stage would mean you will have to set it as 165,2 btc if you strictly consider the spreading plan of 23.5% for the early birds and 18.5% for the second ipo stage. this sounds like a bad idea, too, of course.
imho the fairest way to guarantee a widely distribution is as follows:
set a fixed number of what you want an early bird investor to get more for the same money, say 20% for example. organize the second stage of the ipo without a total upper cap, but sill using the upper cap of 1.5 btc per user for both stages, of course. run the second stage as long as possible and try to spread the word so that most people that are into cryptocurrencies have at least heard of it. finally calculate the coins each investor will receive as follows:
(1.2 * early bird investment + second stage investment)/(1.2 * all early bird investments + all second stage investments) * 42000000
note that this way of distributing the coins guarantees that an early bird investorg gets exaclty the 1.2-fold for the same money no matter how much is raised in the second stage.
Or simply do away with the stage 1/stage 2 system entirely.
Even if people invest into stage 2, the coin still hasn't been released, they are not risking any more or less than stage 1 investors.
Anyway, the solution provided by kingbtcvl does seem to solve that problem while keeping all respective parties happy. First stage investors get their little bonus while second stage investors don't get shafted.