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I am still surprised how much publicity this coin has gotten already.
Basically everybody in the mining section is asking about it and its all over Reddit.
I think the coin gained popularity when they announced that the premine will only be 0.5% and it will be time-locked, so it will get distributed yearly.
Either way I still think its rushed but Bitfinex and other exchanges plan on listing it.
all of the publicity is due to two facts:
1.free airdrop-everybody likes free money
2.ability to be mined with GPUs and tales about true decentralisation aka "what Satoshi wanted"
in reality it is a very underprepaired project with a motley crew team
I doubt it will be a success,but if it gives you something for free,take it and run
p.s. currently at 0.075 BTG for one bitcoin at Yobit (yes yes I know,Yoshit and all)