In general we don't differ much, except that, for once, I am going to give the dev the benefit of the doubt. I don't believe he launched this knowing that GPUs will find a workaround and therefore with one by his side. I believe he just jumped the gun and launched when the thing wasn't even remotely ready.
I also disagree with your fear regarding current distribution -no one has amassed huge amounts of coins-. Yes I know this is not possible to know for certain but if someone would have, either he has enormous faith in this project and hasn't dumped any -which makes no sense in and of itself and which would make the accumulation actually beneficial- or plan on staking for a long, long time still. Either way, preserving the natural rise in the price we are witnessing.
You might be right about the GPU miner. Even if you are, it is highly indicative of incompetence. Looking at the blockchain, no one mining from block 1 would even need a GPU miner to amass most of the coins.
The first 400 blocks were mined in under 2 hours, 200k coins. First 100 blocks mined in under 5 minutes. At about 4 hours on the dot after launch around block 535, the initial instamined POW blocks started staking and removing LOTS of POW blocks.
I got in even later and like I said, mined one single 500 coin POW block, thats it. Consistent 24/7 staking got me up to 1930 coins or so by the time the 5 coin rewards kicked in. Nearly quadrupled in that short amount of time. Look at the block explorer and play around with the numbers. The dev could have EASILY amassed 25% of the total current supply just by instamining from block 1 on a single CPU and staking. The only way he couldn't have is if he didn't mine or stake from the start. Why wouldn't he, and why would he give such a large gift to a random lucky miner if he is concerned with poor distribution?
If he used multiple CPUs and bought as many dumps as he could on smaller exchanges before pumping on bittrex, I have no doubt he is controlling well over 50% (conservatively estimated) of the total supply.
This is all speculation and I have no proof of course, but there is a difference between giving the benefit of the doubt and putting on blinders. Look through the blockchain, check the time stamps, factor in how quickly my coins multiplied. When you add it all up, what other conclusion can you come to than that the dev is controlling an ungodly amount of the total coins?
Good points. And deductions. In the bigger picture though, even if you are right -and you could very well be- it could be beneficial for the project IF )again those pesky big IFs) the developers (I have been informed it's a team of three) really do believe in this project. That would mean they don't want to sell immediately and run away to the next project. They have already something very, very nice HERE. So that big amount of coins, and growing, would theoretically be in the best hands possible for they would use to dedicate themselves entirely or mainly to the coin, while slowly selling what they stake, and work as hard as they can to bring value to the project all along. Again, the conditional being the key thing, all of that could very well be positive... the alternative to that being P&D groups that would inevitably leave the believers with big bags and the project destroyed.
Key point is that IF (again!) we give the dev team the benefit of the doubt, and IF (again!) the project is legitimate, everyone can benefit: These three months will double the amount of coins to anyone staking with something like 25k coins, which is not a lot of money, a couple BTC or so. That's 100% right there with probably another 100% in the next "rich" phase immediately after the 5 coins-block one is surpassed. Still, the whole enchilada remains: Around 10 million max coins ever in circulation. It is a well calculated risk, well worth the potential failure in my opinion.
Now, while the devs do their jobs, hopefully in a hurry -but well, not like the launch-, and get that website on, that whitepaper out and that timeline posted, it is time for the believers and even the traders, to do their part and find answers to the long term questions: What is the real life use cases that can be brought to AXIOM? There are many potentially. I for one have one that could be very nice up my sleeve, I just need a bit more confidence in the dev team -and cannot have it unless they identify themselves to me-, but there are others waiting to happen. If (biggest IF of them all) the community do its part, this could be explosive and bring a lot, A LOT of nice Christmas presents for those believers.