It's funny how the dev calls community take over illegal and people who did it thiefs. As I understand, their code is based on Bitcoin and Litecoin code created by other devs an dreleased as open source. You cannot take an open source software, do a few mods, call it yours and treat it as a closed source software. That's what I call stealing from open source. Once your code is out, it belongs to the community. If you don't like it, then create a full code yourself from scratch.

My pool http://cra.novahash.org was announced as a third official pool before the dev cocked up the launch again. My pool turned to CRApples since.

I had a funny conversation on Skype with CryptoApples dev - dev admitted that he lost control of the coin, but was hoping that his premine will stay intact. I explained to him that the community will remove his premine, there is no problem in doing it - it was done to eTOKEN. Then the dev asked me to explain a bit more how premine can be deleted, because he did not understand the technical part of it. Well, I am not a programmer myself so I don't know how ecxactly it was done. After dev realised that premine can be deleted he started crying that they spent a lot of time on the coin and it's not fair. The dev also asked my advise on what to do. I suggested to join the community run CRApples and explain himself to the community - why he delayed launch, what the problem was and so on, but he was more worried about premine rather than coin future.

This morning the dev wanted my pool to switch back to CryptoApples. And here is my answer - the pool will stay with CRApples.