Well, the community have spoken.
It's a little surprising (or maybe not) that Evan doesn't have anything at all to say about this.
How 'bout it Evan? Nothing to add?
What could he possibly add?
This covers his role fairly exhaustively (until such time as legal discovery commences and subpoenas start flying):
Let's take a look at the first 5 h of Darkcoin (XCoin at that time)...
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.4589219Edufield said (after failed launch) that he will wait the next day to launch DRK (XCoin at that time) it is 11 pm.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.4591407 Edufield disregard windows wallet and daemon and hurry up his launch, presumably to not have windows miners on board.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.4592827Edufield say he added four nodes for the launch at 4 am (5 hours later, despite his promise to wait). The 4 nodes from Edufield are 3 amazons AWS + another unknown (whois IP). Launch started at 3h54 am.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.4593601 Edufield said the github version was not updated, nobody could compile and only Edufield was able to mine until that time. It is 5.09 am and Edufield instamined alone 1153 block at 500 DRK + 60 block at reward 277 = 593120 DRK for him alone in about 1 hour.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.4593987 No windows wallet confirmed at 5h47 am, despite a user attempt to make one avaiable, that Edufield dismissed quickly.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.4594096 Illodin, understand dev has instamined alot of coin.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.4595573 From this list of nodes, at 8h34 am (4h40 after launch) there were 50 Amazon AWS node and 50 microsoft cloud computing instamining DRK (checked using IP whois service). This is 100/124 nodes using cloud computing to instamine DRK. We are at block 2870 and block reward is 500. From block 1153-1729 block reward is 277. After that it is 500 again hence 2294 block at 500 + 576 at 277 = 1306552 DRK (worth about 13M$ now) were instamined in less than 5 hour by Edufield and coworkers using about 100 cloud mining instances. Edufield himself instamined in not even 5 h from 600K to 1169K DRK ((1306K-600K)*100/124 + 600K) depending how many of the 100 cloud mining instance were its own. All this while having purposefully set the difficult ridiculously low and block reward 100 times what it is now.
From 6M$ - 13M$ in 5 h, Edufield did some lucrative work here!
Edufield is nominee for the Master Scammer 2014 award!