>What I am considering (I'm not really proposing anything) is offering a guaranteed amount of coin for working for a short period of time (3-6 months) leading up to an ICO. After the ICO the company would buy back all or a portion of the coin at the final ICO price. Beyond that the coin could be exchanged (ultimately for cash) on open exchanges.
I got that, but let me rewrite that as I understand it:
"I am considering to offer an UNKNOWN amount of a NON-EXISTING good, with an UNKNOWN current unit value (be the value expressed in US$, tons of peanuts or pounds of manganese, these units or measure are all acceptable) that will (hopefully) in 3-6 month time start to exist and have an UNKNOWN value (presumably higher than the UNKNOWN initial value, being moltiplied by an UNKNOW appreciation factor, but that could as well be subject to an UNKNOWN depreciation) and (maybe) this newly valued good will be accepted by one or more UNKNOWN "open exchanges" where it may be traded in exchange for other goods (typically money, i.e. US$) at an UNKNOWN rate with UNKNOWN trading charges."
It's not even a double or nothing bet, as there is no base value of the initial bet.
As a side note, I can offer you 2,000 spiffletrinks for 20% of the company, if you are interested, but if you prefer fransghetmefs, we could talk, as I could go up to 8,000 of them for the same 20%.