Think about it.
It's becoming more and more apparent as time goes by that the "bungled launch" came off exactly as planned and the MAX devs did indeed have working GPU miners prior to launch. No pools to compete with, no working windows clients, etc...
This way they could reap all the benefits of a premine and claim fair launch at the same time. The "leaked source" was just cover and it didn't matter anyway as no one would have enough Nvidia cards on hand to do anything serious for at least a few days which gave them all the time they needed.
All they had to do was have a CUDA farm ready to go. The 24 hours it took to get an AMD version out was plenty of time to rake in millions in BTC as everyone was going into MAX hysteria and running the price up to 0.32 in the first few hours.
~BCX~
** Disclaimer: I am purposefully fudding Maxcoin to drive the price down even further because there is little doubt that Max Keiser will pump this back to historic highs once again, but nonetheless, the above is a very real possibility.
I'd have to say no. Maxcoin has had one of the most impressively fair initial distributions of any altcoin to date. The fact that there was so much initial hype about the coin ensured that the 'easiest' blocks were distributed probably more fairly than even the early bitcoin blocks were.
Also, lots of people have GPU's so it's reasonable to assume that some clever person is going to figure out fairly quick how to use it to churn out SHA-3 hashing power. It's the really capital intensive ASIC infrastructures that can prove too much of a risk to the decentralised nature of the protocol.
The fact some people are complaining that a keccak GPU miner was available almost right from the start is also just a release of butthurt by the people who thoiught they could take a bigger slice of the pie without having the computing resources to deserve such a share of the block reward. Nobody ever said that this coin was supposed to be a GPU free zone. Contrary to the popularly held view at the moment by people who are butthurt about their inability to understand basic programming or networking skills and were unable to compile the minerd from source or use a command line wallet.
So overall, i think Maxcoin was in fact a reasonably successful launch. Compared to the bitcoin launch or other premined alts I don't know what people are complaining about. You have to think for yourself sometimes and ignore the internet TROLLS who just want to sink the price lower so they can buy in!
