How do you answer to the premined acusations on Darkcoin?
There was no premine, but there was an issue with "instamine". The "instamine" was an honest mistake.
If you watched the market, the block chain, and have followed what's happened since last January you would know that most if not all those coins have since been given away, sold off, etc... and in my opinion, these coins have a far better distribution than mining alone ever could have. It kept the price low for many months, IMO, allowing for people without much hash power and non miners to be able to buy coin. I bought almost half of what I have, because the price remained low enough even for someone like myself, out of work for 10 years, and living on a shoe string budget. I bought over a long period of time, often, heck, each time at the high of that week. Yet I feel I have done super well. So even I could put together a couple of masternodes! My family just never goes out to eat. I still desperately need a pair of tennis shoes, Mom bought me a hair cut. We just forgo all those usual things, and I could gather a hundred bucks here and there, over a long period of time and still buy under 2 bucks a coin. If miners were in control and there were no cheap coins, I never would have had that opportunity.
No, it even seems the big wallets now are exchanges or else they've been growing for some time (in other words, collecting after the "instamine")
And the instamine was not on purpose, it was a fu*kup. An honest mistake of exuberance and sending it to market before vetting it. Evan was excited, was sure he had it all figured out and wanted to launch it to see what happened. It's that same exuberance that makes him such a fantastic developer. You can read about the "birth of Darkcoin" here:
https://darkcointalk.org/threads/the-birth-of-darkcoin.162/
