The source was posted at launch. The windows wallet was compiled shortly after launch. Solo mining was never recommended and would not have been possible at 200+ difficulty without in excess of 60 M/H in power. You said private launch, which indicates some public miners were given an advantage. This is not the case. Nice try.
Then why do a lot of others think and seen the same thing?
For one very simple reason: there is a group of people attempting to mis-inform people about rubycoin in this thread. Whether intentionally or not, that's what they're doing. Anyone who was in the IRC at launch knows what you are saying is false.
I don't engage with habitual liars. We're done here.
At least 2 pools were mining the coin seconds after the dropbox link was posted (at best, it may have been a minute or two before, both are a sign of the same thing). Therefore they had to have it ahead of time. The first post in this thread was not updated for many minutes after the link was posted in irc. To my knowledge the change in early block reward wasn't posted anywhere.
Where is the mis-information?
OMG, almost two days later and people are still crying.
I was not on one of the early release pools, in fact, you can find me right now on Bitember.com, I missed a few coins... I missed a few coins, that's it. I wish I had gotten those coins, because I am trying to make a profit here, but even though I happen to be a guy... I've got my big girl panties on and I will live to fight another day. I have chosen to mine this coin for a while longer, but I might change my mind an hour from now, but I just can't spend days crying over something I know I'm not going to change. Either I want to mine this coin or I don't, if I don't want to, I will put my energies into the coin I do want to mine... it's just that simple.
I could care less. I don't have any ruby left nor am I mining it anymore, and as such its my last post here. Mine the coin, enjoy the coin, love the coin. . But for people to claim it was an all well and good launch and anyone saying otherwise is part of some smear campaign is silly. Coin dev's releasing source code to certain pools is also silly (to anyone, really). Just let them rush to grab it, compile it, and get their shit going like everyone else. God forbid people solo mine for a few minutes, or those who can't/don't have to wait 5min for pools to pop up. But oh well, thats another story.
You guys should market to the Ruby programming community.