It was already relaunched once, relaunching it once more would've irritated a lot of miners who were standing by ready to mine already having been through one canceled launch. Would it have been the correct decision in retrospect? Yes. Then why wasn't it? Maybe Evan didn't want to irritate those people anymore than they already were. Maybe he thought it was no big deal as he never could've imagined how big the coin would grow and didn't realize the extent of the problem. Or maybe the other dev team member opposed another relaunch. Or maybe it was an elaborate scam of theirs. Or something else. Take your pick.
1st, please don't quote, a lot of us have him on ignore so he can't irritate us. Go ahead and answer him if you want, but when they're obvious trolls, it'd be kind of you to at least not quote him.
And to answer this, and I was there, we didn't have a block explorer for almost a week, that is when we discovered what happened. Before that, there was no way to know how fast blocks were being found. Evan saw that the coins were paying out too high, and adjusted his algorithm, which mostly stopped the spillage, but the extent of the spillage was not known until the Block explorer was created. The miners that had a lot of hash may have known, but they didn't tell us. Evan was probably running a machine or two, but he would not have known, he had a special calculation that was supposed to pay out high if the hash rate was low, and drop as the hash rate raised. Anyway, after the block explorer came out, and we realized what happened, Evan asked if we wanted to start over again. Everybody said no. You have to remember, Evan, as a developer, needed to please the miners because they were the backbone of his new experiment. What if they didn't come back if he re-launched. They'd already spent a week with their mining equipment focused on his coin. So he didn't relaunch. We all had the same chance to get in on the launch, and the same chance to the coins as our knowledge and abilities and resources allowed us. That's life. Life has a little bit of a luck factor.
But those first 2 days and the week after were hardly the only opportunities for people to make money in Dash. And by the way, Evan bought up tons of coins, which he then used to pay for bounties. He bought them 20,000 at a time. Why would he do that if he were mining them all up? I think not.
BTW, I have a copy of the forums before the mods started deleting everything.