I'd say the developers need to create a public ledger of the premine now and stop this coin spiraling down further into the abyss, is that going to happen? Probably not.
That's the thing. There was a public ledger. But somewhere along the line, they decided to split the coins into dozens of wallets making the funds untraceable. Nochi has been trying to piece together the trail of the premine and saya he got to 60M of the total 270 million. Another user calculated the value of the giveaways. The devs claimed to have given millions but the bounties and giveaways shows roughly 200k coins were dispersed of the 270million. These trifling idiots are just that. Idiots.
Alright, now I will apologize for being rude. Your post to 24kilo shows actual thought, not just raving. When you were raving, I responded in kind. I probably shouldn't have.
Your last few are reasonable discourse, raising legitimate concerns in an adult manner.
I am impressed.
In the interest of full disclosure, I am neither an early adopter nor an investor. I hold no EAC at the moment, and the most I ever had was like 10 coins. My interest in the coin stemmed from it's name, it's attraction to and by charitable organizations, and it's fast transaction times. My primary coin is Bitcoin.
I do understand your concern with the premine. I also understand the frustration inherent in not getting answers. This doesn't change my position, but I am more willing to outline it without the name calling and bravado.
Have the developers dropped the ball and walked with the money?
I don't know. It's a valid concern. Maybe they are still trying to get the EAC/USD exchange going, and holding reserves for it. Again, I don't know. That would be a wise move, but they have not revealed what they are doing. Maybe they are judiciously dumping it, keeping prices low, but not destroying the coin altogether, in the hopes of gradually cashing out. Once again, I don't know.
I'm fond of an aphorism that states "Never attribute to conspiracy that which can be more readily attributed to stupidity". I have seen far more people do stupid things than deliberately criminal things, even though the end result is often the same. So, lacking evidence of deliberate malfeasance, I'm going with stupidity. Stupidity is curable, usually by violent death, to be sure, but there are other ways. People do learn, should they survive.
Which brings me 'round to the position where you and I seem to be in contention: That the malfeasance or stupidity involved in the premine will sink or boost the coin.
I maintain that if the community does step up and fill the void left by the developers
regardless of whether or not they step up themselves that the premine ultimately will not matter. Now if the time frame is today, yes, it matters. If the time frame is a year or two from now, it may not.
Why? Because of several things. One, if they are just holding to dump, there will come a point in the near future where that has been accomplished. At that time, those coins will be in general circulation, or at least distributed fairly by market forces. This, I think, would actually be the most healthy thing for the coin. On the day or days that it happened, the value would tank on the exchanges, but the coin would then be unencumbered.
Another, as I had mentioned before, is that by dint of it's name and it's attraction to and for charities, there is a chance for this coin to tap a market that is in sore need of money transmitting services that are outside of the purview of the so-called mainstream. Most charities right now operate at a much larger profit than for profit organizations. Or at least in the top echelon. I used to work with an internationally recognized charity. If I said the name, you'd know it. I'm not saying it because I don't want to give those blood suckers the recognition. For all their pious nonsense, they take 80 percent of the donations they receive for "administrative costs" and advertising. The advertising I see as legit. The manager driving a new Mercedes while the people she's supposed to be helping beg for food is not. Yet most modern charities are organized around the "clearing house" principle, where a large organization gathers funds and disburses them as it sees fit. The clearing houses mostly see fit to disburse it to themselves, while giving the real workers at the point of the lance an empty bag. A coin such as Earthcoin could address this by having people donate directly to the causes they feel worthy, and I mean DIRECTLY. Even with a reasonable amount of fees for such services, this would reverse the model to 20 or so percent to overhead and the remainder to be put where it actually does some good. People would go for it, too. The profits to be made there are immense, in the long term, both monetarily and in the realm of human potential realized.
Again, to be perfectly clear, I am not a fan of "handouts", though in emergency situations they are sometimes necessary. I am a big fan of the concept of a hand UP. As in the old saying if you give a man a fish, you've fed him today, but if you teach him to fish, you've fed him for life. I'll not go into great depth on this, at the moment at least, because it's not really the point. The point is that there are great things that can be done with this coin, and because it IS under the radar and of low exchange value, but also possesses quite a bit of intellectual and enterprising people in it's community, that it can be developed over a medium term to exploit some of these opportunities. If this is done without the help of the developers, the unfortunate truth is that they will profit by it if they hold their coins. But the flip side of that is, if they don't step up and the community does, their profit will be a one time thing, whereas the community will have established a robust and growing alternate currency that is actually doing something to make the world a better place.
And even more to the point, even if you're a cynical bastard, "green" sells. I still think this coin has immense potential due to it's name and fast transactions. I don't much care whether or not it's "asic resistant". True Asic resistance is easy to achieve. Just shoot the coin dead. If it becomes profitable enough to develop asics for it, then it is a success. I think the asic resisstance is a red herring in cryptocoins anyway. Asics make the network large and secure, as long as a lot of people have access to them. But a coin is going to have to be rather big before they're really worth the development costs. Asics, IMO will neither make nor break a coin. What will is it's adoption, or lack thereof. We can make it happen regardless of the actions of the developers. They can step up, and make it happen faster, but they do not own the coin.