Releasing the source in advance to a select few constitutes premine in my dictionary. At best, the whole.thing was rather messy.
Anyway, Moon is looking good sitting beside my dead BTE's.
We released to one launch pool. We did this deliberately and our reasoning was explained both here and on our blog. It was a public pool, open to everyone. Nobody was excluded from participating. It was that or risk real pre-mining and chain forking.
The OP stated that Multipool would be available. "
You will have access to a trusted, third-party pool (Multipool.us).". No more, no less. There was nothing in the OP explaining that Multipool would have prior access to the source and that Multipool was to run the program 15 minutes before anyone else even got the chance to download the source.
The two things we did not plan for:
* DDOS that kocked me off-line for 10 minutes so I could not post updates or keep people informed of status at our launch pool.
The only thing needed was releasing the source when Multipool went live. Thousands of people were getting angry here, hearing that a few lucky guys got access to Multipool (my pre-registered account did not manage to get through on Multipool those fateful 15 minutes), while seeing some updates from you in this thread but no source release. None, just time ticking by while the lucky ones were instamining minute after minute via Multipool.
* The massive number of people that were attempting to use the pool simultaneously. At one point, the pool servers had load averages above 700! The mooncoind was literally crashing over and over and over until people backed off a bit.
If you take the unexpected downtime out of the equation, everything else went very well.
I have seen worse, indeed.
Consider this scenario:
1:00:00 PM - No DDoS and pool opens to the public without any crashing
1:00:05 PM - Source drops to github.
1:02:00 PM - Other pools finish their compile and launch mooncoind.
That's what was intended from the outset.
My big question: why was there no source available while a lucky few where having the time of their lives with Multipool (known to the thousands waiting and waiting, screaming to release the source for God sake... yes, I can be melodramatic...
). The source should have been released the moment that Multipool was up. Via a mobile phone, your neighbors' PC, a friend or whatever. But that's all history.
I agree it got messy [...]
At least Moon survived all this.
Thanks for your response.
