SO
Whats the difference between an ICO and a 100% Premined Altcoin?
Arent they essentially the same thing? Someone mined all the coins in a blockchain for himself and SELLs them for fiat/BTC/ETH for his personal gain and calls it an ICO (with a few exceptions such as BAT for example).
Back in the day when someone premined 2% and then introduced the coin we would all get riled up and mad and call him a scammer. Even worse, there were some developers who didnt premine but somehow when the wallet/mining software was intraduced there were difficulties so somehow a large sum was "instamined". Yes Instamine was a BAD word back then because it meant someone Instantly mined say 1% of the total coins for himself . That was frowned upon.
Now a 100% premine, is all cool and these ICO dudes have Instagram ads and websites! I am stunned or maybe I dont understand the difference. Well technically I know a fork of litecoin and a "smart contract" are different in terms of programming language but essentially an ICO is a block chain where the owner has collected ALL the coins for himself and sells them for profit.
I was busy on this forum back in 2013 but I have been away since 2014 and just got back (they deleted my username here) in the game and I am kind of stunned by the appearance of these 100% premined, 100% creator owned altcoins called ICOs and how our community tolerates them. Whats worse is that all the money that goes into ICOs actually goes into the Ethereum owners pocked who sells the Eth to buy the ICO.
So what happened? How did we succumb to this?
ICO is generally on ERX20 Token are Token are created within few hours, whereas minable coin requires a lot of time and
it's not possible that anyone can 100% Mine all Coins,
HE/SHE will leave either 30% 20% or 10% for other miners,