Why don't we all just stop giving a damn and give Gliss a break, guys? I (and some other guys too) researched the situation a bit and found out that BCN was deepmined for two years in the Darknet by a group of about 200 miners. Whether you want to call it premine is highly questionable and ultimately irrelevant, as (**) is there to protect investors from scams of all sorts.

But for whatever reasons the developers and deep web community they started with wanted the degree of control over the coin the deepmining decision provided, it's got to be something other than a pump-a-dump scheme that everyone's implying, because BCN isn't a mere fork of Bitcoin: the amount of time and financial resources invested into the underlying CryptoNote technology outweighs the possible benefit from a simple scam.

The amount of investment is, I feel, the reason for their wish to manipulate the coin to some degree, as the developers have a certain vision for their brainchild's further fate and don't want it determined by random influences. So if I were Gliss, I would do just the same: instead of arguing non-stop about preminine or not and getting bogged down in aimless quarrels, I'd just look at the root of the problem and make the same decision.