10+ BTC holders won't care about 10 BTX - too much hussle, most of them use hardware wallets so too risky to export private keys while majority of smaller holders won't even know about airdrop...so waste of BTX. Devs seem trying hard to pump up the market cap without creating too much selling pressure. Active claiming based on April's snapshot didn't work well so they want to go for effortless claiming this time.

The problem with those 250K is that they choose what coin to accept. And most of them doesn't accept most of supported coins.  
It is won't be worse, but don't count on that much.

I'm conflicted because I was hoping for a more favorable airdrop to BTX holders but I realize just giving all the BTX to us holders in one large dump or even dumps spread out over the course of a few weeks is probably not the best way to promote mass adoption because there would likely be a massive dump once the airdrops end.  However, I don't think giving a larger share of BTX to BTC holders will promote mass adoption either because there is a reason they haven't already claimed their BTX and it only serves the purpose of giving a few whales an insignificant (in their eyes) amount of BTX.  They don't care about the project when there are BTCC hard-forks at a 1:1 ratio.

In my opinion, the best option for the community and the coin would be to continue these weekly airdrops over an extended period of time.  There are downsides to this though, mainly, some exchanges will hesitate to add BTX since there is so much per-mined and held by the devs.  Perhaps there is another way to get these coins out that won't "shock" the BTX markets in the short term.  

Agreed but for the cheap price of 1 BTC you can at least be available to 250k merchants.

Why havent people claimed BTX:

1. They havent heard about it.
2. It is not worth it.

The best way to get more publicity would be to partner up with an exchange and have them distribute the btx to all their bitcoin holders after the november snapshot like poloniex did with clam.

In all honesty... The end result seems to be the same now that I think about it. Someone who owns a sizable amount of BTC is at best going to just sell the BTX once they get it and convert it to BTC. The price will probably go down sharply regardless of the method of distribution so why not just bite the bullet now and move forward? That is always the most economically feasible and prudent solution. Look at Bitcoin cash for example. It was 1 to 1 for BTC and the price went down sharply because many did not want it. They sold it for BTC and then later it got bought up by people who do want it and the price went back up. Let's just skip the step where it is distributed to those that don't want it and just distribute it to those that do. When the price goes up on good news and solid development then there will be those that sell and the currency can spread to more people through the exchanges. I would even be more ok if they distributed 65% out in steps to holders, kept 25% for future 3% weekly airdrops, and then the 10% goes to the devs. That way we still have some extra added incentive for newbies to get into it. There are a million better ways to distribute than the method that was chosen.  

I still think that BTX needs advertising. Why not allocate a small portion to the bounty? People need to see and know more. For example bounty Twitter, Facebook, signature compaign. I put the signature for free, because I believe in BTX, but it's better if there are many such people, who will write about it.

I think the new final airdrop is a great idea! way better than the initial idea. Keep up the good work devs!

I put in my BTC address but for some reason it doesn’t bring up any coins to claim. I have had the coins for over 3 years so it seems odd. Anyone else have similar issues?