Nextcoin and other pre-emitted coins

[Prianik]

Nextcoin has 10^9 coins from the start.
But who owns\owned it? Is that a coin creator who do?

[Kasandra]

the investors who donated for development, about 80 people got coins on first block, and started selling / giving away

[Luceat]

I was sceptical about this way of distribution first, it really sounds unfair when you hear it for the first time. The coins the stakeholder received wouldn't have been worth anything if they just decided to hold. So the more they distributed through giveways and selling the faster the value of NXT grew. Once NXT kicked off they will still have a good amount of NXT, which they deserve, at least in my opinion. They took a huge risk when they invested in NXT afterall.