He was not bullied out - he was asked for transparency on the pre-mine as it was supposed to be used for supporting the community.
He took the majority of the pre-mine out as payment to himself and then no longer had time to commit to the project when it ran out.

https://github.com/MintcoinCommunity/Mintcoin-Desktop-Wallet/commits/master?page=3

All other initial developers left the lead developer 3 months in and the last standing developer gave up and cashed out as payment to himself for his work.
He was gracious enough to hand down the assets to the community for continual improvement.

The "original dev" is actually one of a many just handed down in an anonymous manor. Now we are open and transparent.

The podcasts are there to keep the community informed. This is also a tool I use to recruit.

Thanks to community donations I almost have enough to register Mintcoin Fund as a Non-Profit here in Wisconsin in the next coming months.

The community also donated towards an android wallet and hundreds of dollars towards the keepod campaign.

You are right though from one aspect....
We need more volunteers.

Right now the following continual efforts are being managed through donations:
- Graphics design
- Hosting
- Web maintenance
- Press Releases
- Business Integration
- Bitcoin Talk Announcement Updates
- Reddit Updates
- Facebook Moderators
- Twitter Supporters
- Reddit Supporters / Technical Support
- Mintcoin Official Moderation

Up until a month ago we also had the wallet and android development support donated by RoboGuy.
He unfortunately is tied back up and will not be able to participate in development until his current project is completed.

I do not see you as a Fudster. You have genuine concerns and feel it is pertinent to share them. That's awesome. The crypto community needs people to to ask questions. Way too many newbies out there getting burned.

I also believe that if you have these questions so do others - I am happy to share what I know with anyone.