Quote from: m7ammad on April 28, 2014, 11:22:58 AM

Quote from: Peter R on April 10, 2014, 12:45:31 AM

Spin-offs: bootstrap your alt-coin with a bitcoin-blockchain-based initial coin distribution

This method (a) bootstraps alt-coins with a very large potential user base, (b) places all alt-coins on equal footings thereby allowing them to compete on their own merits, (c) automatically piggybacks bitcoin investors in any financial gains that may result due to community innovation, (d) fairly rewards innovative alt-coin developers as they can scoop up spin-offs dumped cheaply on the open market, (e) makes it difficult to pump and dump.

You yourself said it. The market will redistribute aether to those who see value in it. so it will have to go through the same growing pains of any other coin, only with a magnified effect, because by the time people figure out that the aether they can claim has value without understanding it's potential, they will start dumping. so every boom will be followed by a super dump by people who hold something they don't value. This will go on for quite a few price jumps as every time, more and people people realize that they can claim aether. You can't assume that just because you give someone something, she/he will value it

Yes, that's the point. The low-risk strategy for current bitcoin holders is to do nothing. If people dump their "free aether," then this is evidence that they don't value it. If people trade bitcoin for more aether, then this is evidence that they do value it. This expedites the price discovery process because you bootstrap the alt-coin with an already diverse potential user base and with a wealth distribution you already know to be efficient for bitcoin.