i agree mostly but a response from the coindev etc would be nice or even from the guys who mined those big amounts early..
but we all know none of them will man up and say yeah that was me who mined all those coins lol
I've mostly tried to stay out of this, but I'll make one post about it.
If anyone bets a big ton of EC2 billing or whatever other cloud service on a brand new chain because they see something special about it, then that bet pays off, good for them. No-one who mined VTC early on could know it would succeed, we all took a risk, that risk is why people who took the opportunity cost of _not_ spending that money mining something else that would be a more sure bet get rewarded well, because 95% of the time you take that risk, it would not pay off.
No, it's not me who mined 100k VTC, I wish it had been, but I did spend quite a lot of money on EC2 instances on day1 and like I said, a lot of the time that money would have been lost. Whoever did mine 100k VTC - well done to you.
If you mined VTC early on, you took a risk that it would not see the kind of success it has seen and is continuing to see. Anyone who has a problem with other people betting on the right horse is just jealous that they didn't perceive the opportunity that others did.
I have seen an agenda from some mysterious people also that are hell bent on discrediting this coin.. prob Dark coin bag holders threatened by VTC i bet.
I have no idea who in particular these people are but yes, I agree it does seem they have some sort of agenda.
Is it possible some miners were pre-configured for launch day ?
Well I can assure you this was not the case for VTC - how do I know? Because I was one of the very first miners, literally as soon as I could get the source built on the EC2 instances I ran on day1, so I was there and saw the network hashrate - there is no possibility GPU miners were out there (if they were, they would have had to be throttled to useless hashrates akin to CPU mining with big EC2 instances or similar), and there was no possibility of preconfigured CPU instances because I was there with a number of EC2 instances as soon as I could get the daemon built on them and the network hashrate at that time was not high enough for a big farm of preconfigured instances to be running - my own instances were a sizeable minority of the hashrate in the first minutes, and it wasn't as though I had dozens of them.
There was a level playing field at launch, and anyone who wanted to could have taken the risk that the guy who mined 100k VTC did, but they didn't - they failed to put their money where their mouth is, and now they want to complain later about someone elses success.
People who are newer here may not realise that on day1, no-one in the dev team was involved apart from Bushido - he launched it on his own, and we all got involved later. Bushido was the only person who would have been able to pre-configure miners, and I am as sure as I can be that he didn't - I got involved with this project because I respected his ethic and liked the ethos of VTC, if I had any suspicions along those lines I wouldn't be involved. I know that Bushido didn't actually have anywhere near as much VTC as me after the first few days, and I gave him quite a lot because I was grateful for his work releasing it, and wanted him to be invested in it.
Given the endless scams that get promoted on here, it's a shame to see people trying to malign one of the few projects that actually is on the level.
