Agreed. Some may call it a bribe, some may call it a fee..call it what you want but money makes the world go round and sometimes theres a cost to get something whether we like it or not. In this case I personally contributed to the 'donation', and in my opinion it was reasonable considering the relatively high profile a site such as Rapidballs has. Not only that, its not just another gaming site but 'lotto specific'. To create such a site between ourselves would have taken some time and there would have been some cost involved.
On the subject of pre-mines, theres another thread on this subject in this forum that makes for very interesting reading. To save time I have quoted a response that summarises my view of pre-mines perfectly:
As for Premine's and Instamines: EVERY coin suffers from one or the other. In no way shape or form does it make it 'rightly so' for early adopters to benefit extraordinarily more than those that come after. Sure we can rationalize and make sense why early adoptors deserve a bit more, but how much of a bit more, exactly how much more? What? Now we have to have our own task forces determine such a thing? Or get everyone's vote? Get Real. It is what it is. Accept it or don't. Like it or not this is how the world works. Some earn more than others. Some take more than others. Some receive more than others. That's just the way it is.
Let's be real. Only those coins that don't get ever more difficult to mine as time goes on (NO Coin does that) is purely of sainthood. And their few an far between. In fact I doubt anyone can even guess which coins are the most fair!
Hint: cryptometer.org - Historical Mining Rate Production Charts
http://cryptometer.org/index.html Bitcoin Block Explorer - Blockchain.info
http://blockchain.info/ Block Explorers for ARG, CYB, DGC, SRC, SBC -
http://cryptobytes.info/chains CryptoCoinExplorer.com - For many Crytpto-Currencies here
http://cryptocoinexplorer.com/ So just toss out these well camouflaged self serving socialist/communist/fascist concepts that others are suppose to work for little or nothing, while clowns that demand Exclusivity forever onwards can rush in and do next to nothing for larger gains if only they show up before others.
It's called Capitalism. But it seems there are really precious few ethical Capitalists in this world today!
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And few if any of these clowns that scream and rant over the internet concerning certain Pre-mine's and Insta-mines but not other ones are neither capitalists, nor serving anything but their own flavor of self serving bullshit.
Many coin types have endured all kinds of lies, slants, and other half truths, twists of logic, and demands from others that their not good enough. It's obvious to know most of these sources claiming such crap are full of shit far too often. And when not their double standards are glaringly obvious. Not to mention their all too often extremely subjective slants and slights.
Sure a minority of crypto's are not worthy. Okay, mention them. List them. Make a list. And BACKUP your comments with FACTS, and References, but not merely half truths and self serving data designed to misrepresent the whole truth, the entire truth. Otherwise your even worse than the evil Banksters.
Disclaimer: How I am going to represent Bitcoin below is not my beliefs. Nor is it my intention to smear Bitcoin. But instead a glaring example of the very point I am trying to get across to those that demand Command, Power, and Control over everything, and everyone else for that matter.
I fully and strongly hail the King: Bitcoin, and it's genius behind it. I always will. It gave birth to this Crypto Monetary Revolution. We all owe everything to Bitcoins creator(s) for that, and to Bitcoin itself. That said here goes:
Case in point: Bitcoin and Satoshi's alleged 980,000 bitcoins, or about 8% of all bitcoins mined to this very day! What a shitcoin if there ever was one right? Talk about an unfair advantage, and gaming the entire system! No? Well what? A double standard then?
RE: Video: Satoshi has how many Bitcoins?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWtNeaZxT54============================================================
Bitcoin Mints Its First Billionaire: Its Inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto
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http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/bitcoin-mints-its-first-billionaire-satoshi-nakamotoSatoshi ‘s Fortune: a more accurate figure
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http://bitslog.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/satoshi-s-fortune-a-more-accurate-figure/ *(For those that defame, slander and merely conclude that other pre-mined and insta-mined coins are not worthy:
list your references and/or explain in detail from now on or be labeled as merely a self serving clown at best).
Case in point would be labeling some crypto subjectively, out of context, or wholly/partially inaccurately.
So, Just after release Satoshi insta-mined the bit-shit out of bitshit, and well before 99.99999% had a clue anyone could even mine Bitcoins at all. So are we all suppose to run away from Bitcoin because it's creator(s) demanded to be compensated for what clearly must be far too much? (BTW: Again, This isn't what I believe, but instead a mere reflective point of view).
After all Satoshi is closing in on 1 Billion Dollars worth of bitcoins in just Satoshi's hands, and if Satoshi were ever to dump any larger numbers of those it would completely collapse bitshit? Right? And soon should Bit-Shit keep rising greatly in value well Satoshi could end up the wealthiest person(s) in the entire world! That can't be right can it? (BTW: Again, This isn't what I believe, but instead a mere reflective point of view).
See here: If Bill Gates and Steve Jobs came to the table with offerings so well received that their product or service was overwhelmingly well received then their very offerings do indeed make them deserving of their capital gains. They produced something real. Tangable or not, they were extremely well received. It will or wont be the very same thing for all these Crypto-Commodity-Currencies.
And given this same reflective point of view: we wouldn't want anyone, not even the creator of Bitcoin and this Crypto Monetary Revolution to dare to have such a luxury of wealth, nor ever able to earn their way in this world by offering such a grand and noble thing as Crypto to the entire world now would we?
At least not when all these do-good'er types (Example: Communists, Socialists, Fascists, Libertarians, Democrats, Republicans, etc.) scream out that these other choices are unfair offerings, and well lets surely not forget about the king and creator of bit-shit! O wait, that's right, we're all suppose to hail the King of Crap.
And after all our present Masters of this world: The Owners (shareholders) of our very own criminal International Banking Cartel could be damaged by dare I say: Competition.
(Personally I fully and strongly support Bitcoin, I always will. But I had to make the points above to get the whole jest across, and surely someone out there believes what I just wrote. Likely the criminal Banksters themselves).
But I needed to point out some of Bitcoins weaknesses to best get the message across that we all have weaknesses, and frailties.
We all need to earn a living too. Some of us much more so than others. Some of us clearly earned more than others. Satoshi is clearly one that earned more than anyone to date for offering such a revolutionary masterpiece as Bitcoin truly appears to be.
I wont eliminate any Pre-mine or Insta-mine from my own extremely diverse yet relatively small crypto portfolio unless I personally see fit to do so. Not simply because the creators wanted what Satoshi himself demanded! If their offering(s) capture my attention and speculative monies than they earned it. Nothing more needs saying.
The OP like so many others are screaming out foul for their very own agenda's, or because they really don't quite understand how this world truly functions yet. Although surely some of them are extremely well intentioned, maybe even the OP for that matter; yet even then it's at the very same time possibly full of self serving double standards and duplicity, even under the best intentions. Or at least it can easily be viewed as such by others. It sure is by myself. And hence this retort.
In other words your all behaving as badly as the Banksters who demand ONLY THEIR CURRENCY be adopted. That ONLY THEY RULE OVER ALL OF US. That ONLY THEY ARE THE WEALTHIEST. And to eliminate all other crypto-monetary competition. It's that very competition that makes possible CAPITALISM. And without accepting all comers YOUR NO CAPITALIST at all. At least not yet OP. But at least it appears your at least trying to be one. And that's far better than most these days!
This Monetary Revolution is about real Freedom, true capitalism, real free markets. And it's up to all of us to decide what is what, and which is to be favored. Not a select few. Not the appointed. Not merely a few elected. But instead all of us, independently, and of our very own free will. It's the Intelligent Revolution. Fools be damned. And just like Capitalism it's all about Natural Selection. (the strong favored over the weak, just as it is in nature).
I realize that is scarey. At least for the Communists, and the Socialists, and the Fascists too. Not to mention the Democrats, libertarians, and Republicans, etc...
In fact it likely scares the bit-shit out of everyone but the Anarchists. And it just goes to show that even the loony, lonely Anarchists get some things correctly. In fact many things correctly. Just as every political group does. But not all ideas.
I have a much better idea than all these rhetorical threads: how bout we execute anyone that demands any censorship, or any moderation, or demands anything else when it comes to seeking Command, Power, and Control over other People without first getting the will of the people behind such causes.
And I don't mean a minority of the people just in case your still squirming in your hell bent for leather chair venting and raging that your never going to regain or capture command, control, thus power over any of this Monetary Revolution Mr. Bankster!
