Is that your answer to all the questions? or all the walls closing in?
Lee - I am not sure what your problem is? It's consistently the same post, the same trolling, the same puns? Do you love bashing and trolling on each new coin? Here are the answers to your question - sorry that we couldn't deal with your 'questions' SO URGENTLY while making sure we get our genesis block back, pay contributors, fix pools, and do everything else to help the community push this coin. So here we go:
A1) There were 2 pools working prior to launch. Wallets were posted on IRC channel prior to launch. The nodes looked to be working until a few minutes after launch when most people were on the 2 working pools. And others were complaining. At the same time the wallets did not get a chance to post on the primary website due to unknown circumstances. (what happened to premine as it was a fair launch.) As I witnessed. 6 pools were effectively working 2-3 hours after launch. And wallet was working throughout.
A2) He volunteered and it was a quick and easy solution, faster than getting everyone involved
A3) He sent us all except the .5, he only sent us the remainder. That was way cheaper than the initial proposal of XX bitcoins.
A4) We're just using the "sendtoaddress" command to send coins. We can't send 0.1 and 0.2 to the same person in the same transaction using "sendmany". Some contributors sent SEVERAL transactions to contribute to the DUCK launch. So now, we're stuck having to pay individually to make sure nothing gets messed up in payouts, in order to ensure those who sent 2+ contributions will get DUCK.