Great posts @Kavallo & @vectisitch
It was clearly advertised on the DeepOnion ANN thread that the coins were premined as it was a signature airdrop campaign and this method requires the coins to be available so as to distribute them to each of the members wallets for each of the 40 weeks...
It was also described that the staking of the premined coins would be used for bounties and other rewards to the community members for posters videos and other contributions to the success of the project.
Also lets not forget with the airdrop rules (at that time) where there were 10 posts and 100 characters required minimum (This was relaxed a number of times) but the majority of fud was from those who didn't comply and were banned from the airdrops. This created a lot of animosity especially as it was such an expensive crypto an there were many who bought farmed accounts to try and cheat the system as well.
However i personally think that many who read the illogical fud actually did their own research and then joined us so just gave DeepOnion even greater visibility..
As time went on the scam allegation reduced until the fudders could only say that the onion hodlers would sell after the airdrop lol
Since the last airdrop on Friday the 20th of April 2018 DeepOnion has increased .. and has had a fairly bullish month in general with all the good media articles including
https://themerkle.com/what-is-deeponion/ &
http://fairreporters.net/economy/best-crypto-privacy-coins-to-buy-in-2018/ Here is a new one by
http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/3735414 plus there been many others. DeepOnion was even mentioned on LastWeekTonight with John Oliver on HBO ...
Anyway if anyone is interested here's my poster of the main DeepOnion features completed so far & those road mapped inc DeepSend.. Thats when Onions should see huge growth..
Visit the 2nd DeepOnion ANN thread which has over a thousand pages on this one so far
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/onion-privacy-coin-with-real-use-cases-deeponion-222-released-2683530 Join the lively community which has over 13,000 members and a committed & growing development team
https://deeponion.org/community . Theres's star trek meme movies & even rap songs created by very talented people which makes DeepOnion a very interesting cryptocurrency and definately one of the best altcoins to be part of. Plus now DeepOnion is even further decentralised with VoteCentral where the community decide the future direction and further blockchain technology to be integrated with a dedicated development fund of 3 Million onions.
Follow the official DeepOnion twitter account here
https://twitter.com/DeepOnionx & #KeepUp with the latest developments & news
(P.S Watch out for fake DeepOnion twitter accounts claiming to give free eth)
Lastly... Always #dyor and then #hodl