So much butthurt in this post. 

Just so you know, it is more profitable to mine DCR than ETH right now.  Do your own research rather than listening to these uneducated trolls.

If I may contribute with some criticism:
The initial sponsor (c0) got a certain number of coins rewarded for the bring up work. These coins were valuated at much less than the current exchange rate. In practice, this then means that (on paper), the initial work was paid at a much higher rate than initially estimated.
Adding to this, there are just a handful of mined coins available at this stage, causing a rather obvious valuation bubble (to me, though I understand that others might disagree).

With the above in mind:
I'd ask c0 to place some funds on the market. No dumping is necessary, but some gradual sell orders would allow others to buy in, without further inflating the price at such an early stage. In my view, holding on to the entire sponsor premine for a good while, stands to hurt this project in the long term, while in contrast, putting some of those funds on the market, facilitates a more balanced distribution window for those entering just now.

Current scarcity is influenced by what c0 holds, as much as all of the airdrop participants combined.
Think about it for a moment. Then place your orders.

Note: This post might drive some mixed reactions, so I guess I should state again: I'm locked in with all of my airdrop coins for voting, along with a couple blocks I managed to scoop after launch. I firmly believe that this project has some substantial technical merit to begin with, and so I hope it evolves to greater adoption and many future achievements. Cheers!

/queue in the p&d'ers and troll responses...

"different from every other coin"

"those are the 2 biggest innovation of this coin"

I don't see significant difference compared to BitShares or Nushares...

https://bitshares.org/technology/stakeholder-approved-project-funding/

https://nubits.com/nushares/voting-mechanics

But, of course, I don't mind being proven wrong.

Bryce Weiner working on this or just his jackass buddies? lol :-)

This was questioned by me pre-launch.
c0 paying themselves at a rate less than could sustain this project. (in effect doubling their payment)

I was ignored by anonymous F_ingsoc. Of course.
This is all set up to pay c0, (beyondtext) nothing more. my opinion.

If they sell now with your blessing they still get 2x disclosed $ payment. (+ free PoS worth another $450,000+ this year on that payment)

Unjustified, but totally predicted over payments to c0.

We've all seen this bs before haven't we?
I know I have.

Yeah, because they could sell all their coins at current market price and it won't effect the market at all.
Keep the criticism up, i like some cheap coins too, but don't be THIS ridiculous.



Actually even more; 860k for the airdrop (4%) and 860k for them (4%) !!!
OMG what we gonna do now!!

Well Nubits are solving a totally different problem of volatility & they are PoS only. Also they are controlling the supply rather than fixing it.

Bitshares are using n/w fee to fund the project alongside a much bigger premine. At least decred has 50-50 share of premine between community & devs.

both are interesting project. Thanks for sharing the info. I stand corrected that those aren't novel features but not exactly a copy of those coins. Still i will support this project as i believe in what this coin is doing.

If anyone is not happy with what decred provides then they have great alternatives. Maybe devs can tell you how decred is different. Also there are other feature i didn't mention so you can read the ann to see them.

I think it's missleading to think that since the price is now twice their initial prediction they "payed" themselves more than they should've.
First of all, predicting the exact price of a coin prior of the launch it's a very hard think to do (in my opinion they did a good job with it: a 2x difference is nothing).
Secondly, the massive ammount of DCR is nothing more than DCR at the moment: the conversion into normal fiat isn't automatic. And they must detain a large amount of coins if they want to have influence over the coin itself (POS voting).

What is "realistic valuation"?

The current price is completely realistic, because, well, it's real! What is more realistic than reality?

As you know, price is the result of the ratio between demand and supply.

The Marxist idea that things have "inherent value" has been discredited decades ago.

In other words, it's entirely possible the price will NEVER drop below the point it is now.

It's all about future expectations investors (myself included) have for the coin.