Also, how many coins did the dev give himself? Can we see it in the blockchain?
It was a pure POS, people sent in BTC, anyone could send in as much as they wanted. So the developer actually had as much power to have coins as anyone else who wanted to invest. He extended one more week after the beta client was released cause there was only like 30btc at that point. If he wanted to have more then it would of made sense to end it then.
You can't be fairer than that really. There was NO WAY for him to scam more coins than anyone else.
Yes, The payments are in the blockchain yes and a google doc. They haven't moved I don't think.
Again my impression is he doesn't care about money much.
Dude can you actually read the OP before you ask questions that are covered in it.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-qora-released-16-may-100-pos-new-source-522102So the developer doesn't care about money? The thing is, that worries me a little bit. I mean in a perfect world, that is exactly what I want to hear. This crypto world is not perfect though.
The problem is that Qora has one developer who doesn't care about what other people think and doesn't care about money. He is writing code for the fun of it. NXT has thirty developers that do care about money and do consider what other people think. The NXT developers want money so much they are trying hard to make it as good as possible.
Who wins? The small single farmer at the farmers market who just loves his organic and high quality produce and doesn't care about money, or Walmart who only cares about margins and money?
In a perfect world, I say the organic farmer at the farmers market, but in reality Walmart wins.
This isn't exactly the same and the argument isn't fair because digital goods can be reproduced over and over, not like tomatoes where each one has to be grown separately. But the parallel is the same when a big organized bunch of first comers go up against a small and lonely new comer. Sometimes David does beat Goliath, but many a man become poor betting on the David's of the world.