Talk:Airdrop (cryptocurrency)

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Ronz, to answer your question, I would suggest removing references to any particular project. Bitcoin has earned its place in the cryptocurrency vocabulary, but it does not do air drops (it is the original, so there is no need). Therefore, it's not relevant to this discussion. Ethereum and OmiseGo (OMG) are but two projects among thousands that participate in air drops. I see no reason why these two specifically would be mentioned over any other. Every blockchain platform, including ours, does them. Air drops, from my experience, are typically conducted by a developer who wants to increase awareness of a new coin. They take a snapshot of a blockchain platform at a certain point in time, and then they send their newly minted coin in proportional amounts to all of the addresses that hold currency on the blockchain platform at that time. A "fork" is a different thing. Bitcoin has thousands of teams of developers right now doing forks. In a fork, everyone who owns Bitcoin before the point at which the fork occurs will have both Bitcoin and the new forked coin afterwards. It has nothing to do with an airdrop, and therefore Bitcoin isn't relevant here. I did a google search for any kind of large news source, but there aren't even any large crypto-news sources about it. There is a website that focuses on it here: https://airdropalert.com/ But I have no idea how reputable it is. --Siddhartha-Komodo (talk) 17:59, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Removing Ethereum and OmiseGo on the grounds that there are others doing the same thing is an attack on the concept of using illustrative examples. It is perfectly within the rules of Wikipedia to use an illustrative example and frankly, it's also a good idea. If other currencies are inappropriately excluded, that is an argument for a list of currencies that have done or are doing airdrops so they are included. It's not an argument for not including any examples. TMLutas (talk) 01:59, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

The difference between an illustrative example suitable for an encyclopedia article vs outright promotion can be difficult to distinguish. The use of reliable, independent sources usually are the solution. Sources from industry news websites may not suffice. --Ronz (talk) 02:15, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

Hi, not sure if I'm doing this part correctly or not (just learning to edit wikipedia). I believe a good compromise between the airdrops specific example vs promotion is whether or not the airdrop is still operating, it should not be allowed because of its potential for spamming, however, if a good example (such as OMG) is raised, it should be included. Also how can we add a better structure to the page? Jroibal (talk) 04:01, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

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