Instead of a premine (which always endangers the value of any coin because of the DD dumping danger)
... which could simply mean "thanks, bye bye" - and the latercomers who buy that premine
are the scammed ones instead - prices fall fall fall - and this coin probably soon slides into oblivion ...
So. Instead of a
premine ...
what about hardcoding a sidemine, which slowly feeds either directly to the victims, or to a central address,
over the following months.
Then there would be a compensation.
This community could grow together very much around this coin, which is almost guaranteed to stay alive that long, because ~150 people have stakes in it.
One option is:
During the first
70,000 blocks or
140,000 blocks or
210,000 blocks or
70BTC worth of whatever-you-call-that-compensation coin
is given to the victims, slowly over time, block by block.
To predict which is a good cut-off,
we could use estimates of other coins (marketcap vs blocknumber),
(when will the total sidemine be worth 70BTC?)
The newbies who have trusted too much would get their money back,
BUT they would not make profit, and that's the learning punishment in it.
And then, at the cutoff, then there are dozens of additional options when that goal is reached.
Those options could simply be voted for, when the time is coming closer to the cutoff.
One option, for example, after the victims of this scam have been reimbursed, the coin could continue to exist, as an "insurance / compensation coin" for similiar cases.
Because even if the cryptocommunity fixes this current problem
(by e.g. escrow IPOs ... or however), criminals will find a new way to scam newbies.
I agree with InsanityDev, no need to rush this, is it?
Let's be creative, create something beautifully new now.
P.S.: The original ideas are in posts #110 and #111 over there
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=482339.msg5307817#msg5307817