You’re a developer building a new token-based product.

Your goal is to acquire users for your product. You’re considering an airdrop as a tactic to do this.

User A 
History of not selling airdrops immediately.

User B
Sells most airdrops immediately.

You can only airdrop to one. Which one do you choose?

I can see why this implication is painful for users who have sold some of their past airdrops, but why are some builders so vehement about defending B?

It’s obvious that people don’t want to give their token to people who will immediately sell it. If they wanted this “volume” they could just sell it themself.

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Startup artist seeking inspiration.  Champion of /bcard

Maybe best to add another column to the binary:

1) best recipient — holds and uses
2) next best — sells but still uses
3) meh — holds and ignores you
4) worst — sells and ignores


A question for me is whether we believe many people fall into group 2 — eg sell but somehow end up trying out your app anyways.

Haha well the OP IS a pretty opinionated framing.  I agree with people who say holding/selling airdrops is not the primary metric you might look at.

Some of the arguments seem to come from people (eg, founders) who I don’t think care THAT much about keeping the $7 stream going