Customize ICO format

[elaineo]

• Define options for launching an ICO
• Decide on user interface
• figure out smart contract interface & support
• Update ICO launch page
• premine Allow for premine #17

[elaineo]

The current crowdsale contract sets a fundingGoal, and the beneficiary may only withdraw the funds after the goal is reached. Donors can refund their tokens at any time before the fundingGoal.

Possible options

• Premine
• Stretch goals (different fundraising thresholds promise different products, like kickstarter)
• Fundraising deadline (date)
• Donation to TokenMint 0:)

[sjmackenzie]

I really like all four options.

• Premine - gives me the developer an incentive to keep at building my platform and make the tokens valuable.
• Stretch goals - 1) marketplace 2) new ETC client 3) a Quantum Computer (QC) which'll analyse ETC and thus allow us to improve ETC's cryptography - this is an insane target that might not even be achievable in implementation, let alone be funded. It's arguable that a QC shouldn't even be on the list ... even though it can dramatically increase the long term success of the system post-QC, as other communities will be moving to coins with strong post-QC crypto.
• Fundraising deadline: would be good to make it a decent amount of time say a few months or even more.
• Donation to TokenMint: this should definitely happen, you guys are grinding at this code enabling it. I'd go a step further and encourage a "donate to ETCDEV". :-)