Why is it for a year? - To stabilize price and allow regular people to invest with normal income payments (prevent whales "price manipulation")

EOS is Fully Funded - ICO funds are for future projects to be built on EOS

Raiden?- Faster is not better --- EOS is tackling the Latency Issue --- also speed is one thing - EOS will be the full package easy to use out of box plug and play environment

If the argument is that EOS is centralized - I say good-That means no truly decentralized Coin will ever be able to compete. - but the argument is that most coins are centralized (pools)