Quark coin was not premined, they just instamined 247.000.000 coins in 6 months, and from now, it needs 247 years to increase x2 the coins. That is, without counting the difficulty, you need 247 more time of mining to get the same.
So you can imagine in how many hands these coins are....
I just have a couple, as i have of other coins, i even have CNC, but i admit this is a shit, from the coins in the POLL, my vote goes to DGC and WDC.
MINING means nothing with regard distribution, how many people in the population even mine? QRK is now far more widely distributed than the coins you mention. It was for sale for nothing for months on end. The instaminers gave it all away for nothing hence why it was on sale for 37-200 range forever. You missed out buying cheaply but there will be other chances.
The instaminers sold it for not much more than the cost of electricity.
Many people mistake mining and fair distribution as the same thing, they are wrong. It is much more fair that everyone has a chance to buy it the market rate that those with big mining farms and low ping to take all of the coins.
Mining will fast become a thing of the past. New models of distribution will arise, the old POW model will soon be gone.
The QRK phenomenon will maybe never happen again, it was a one off. Never will coin of that limited supply, and yes 280 million is nothing still, there are already coins with 100's of billions out and their price now is more than quark was for months on end. Everyone had a chance to buy in low. It is still low compared to what could come next. The coins design is also excellent those saying multi algo means nothing are talking rubbish.
QRK was unknown, now everyone talks about it, you can't hope for it to become unknown again. You can't even put a buy order in for QRK on cryptsy as soon as qrk hits an exchange that can handle the volume that will be very good for the coin.