2+ million Darkcoin/DASH were instamined in the first 48 hours
In fact it was 500 000 within an hour and 1.5 million in 8 hours. The "48 hours" number is apparently used a lot here as one of the ways to make it sound less outrageous.
So I'm still not happy with the new direction of this rebranding but I cant help not chime in on monero....
Is it better to have a launch that was imperfect or a coin that was launched as a scam?
Don't forget that Monero was launched with the sole purpose of being a scam. Original devs only did it for the money. If the community didn't take it over and find a whale to back it, the coin would be dead right now.
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They were just in it for the money and had no real interest in Monero.
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Wasn't "roughly 5% percent of the total supply" instamined with the optimized miners? Oh but that's ok. They were going to be mined anyways and the devs dumped them all, or so they say. Sounds like a great coin!