People who are aware of creations like the 'New World Order' and are able to see bigger pictures are probably already aware of what I'm going to tell you here. Everyone else should take the time to read this. This should be an easy to understand explanation for unaware people. If you have some corrections, just let me know about. Feel free to leave other thoughts in here too.They have planned it through and through. NVC is the highest 'valued' altcoin for a long time now.
Novacoin is based on ppc. It uses proof of work and proof of stake instead of PoW only (initial thread
114712). There was a premine of 210,000+ coins (
143828). 110'000 of that premined coins were 'destroyed' (sent to an address that can't be generated with any private key) by BTC-E (more details about that later). The other 100k+ coins that were premined are probably still in existence.
The premining shocked a lot of people away from it (what's a good sign) and created less competition to the people who where willing to mine it (probably the creator themselves, some insiders and a little bit of others who didn't/don't understand why premining is bad). This was the first 'bad-news' for NVC right after the release.
The NVC creators gave 110k of their premined coins to BTC-E to get listed there (probably for a lifetime). Of course you want your altcoin getting listed on the biggest altcoin exchange as soon as possible and as long as possible, especially if you have a lot of the already existing coins and will get more out of mining than others because of the PoS reward system that is included. People got informed about that and BTC-E decided to destroy all the received bribe money after a huge revolt from the community (
144158), but never have removed the trading pair nvc/btc on their exchange. Nothing ever got public what has happen to the other 100k premined coins. So they were probably still in the hands of the creators. Smells wrong, right?
The BTC-E story was the second 'bad-news' for NVC and not a lot of the still miners were willing to support that scam further on. A lot of traders have sold their holded NVCs (to the 'still believers'). The above named mining'-insiders' were able to mine even more coins. At that point they have a very high percentage of all coins. It's very likely that it was above 90%. With that it's easy to drive the prize up slowly over time (by simple market manipulation through pumps/dumps, give-away's and so on) and not actually have to give away a high percentage of the holding coins. The slowly increasing prize became interesting for other miners who are looking to mine the coin that gives them the most rewards in a short-term. They mine it and probably sell the mined coins as soon as possible. And who is buying them? Right, the same gays again. These miners don't really care that they are helping securing a network of a coin no one really want to see 'succeed', they are just looking to make as much money as possible.
As already mentioned: The proof of stake implementation makes sure that the miners who have already mined more than others get higher rewards on their further generated blocks. I don't think I have to tell who is going to get the most coins out of mining in the case of nvc.. Of course it's about the same guys again and again.
As time goes by and bitcoin became more and more a topic for none-geeks through mainstream news and simply 'mouth-to-mouth propaganda', more and more people also got interested in altcoins. Most of them are not willing to do their research and simply buy what they think is 'hot'. NVC seems to be very hot then it's the most 'valued' and 'stable' altcoin of em all. The big holders can take most of the investment back if they do it 'right'.
So what we have now is an altcoin called novacoin that has the highest rate of all altcoins and has a very secure network (probably the most secure one of all the altcoins out there). But it's also a coin that is 'controlled' by a small amount of people. Newbies will fall for that coin and the process will start over and over again. The nvc powers in place will not give up their position without a fight. Sounds familiar? It is of course not driving satoshi's idea of decentralization further on. You can call NVC being the NWO of the cryptocoins. I also like to call it 'No Value Coin'.
So if that still isn't looking like a very well planned scam for you, then I really can't help you.