I was hoping you'd type that. This is why Dash's instamine is so controversial. Because we know a few things:...We do not know who controlled 51% of the hashrate at the time. But, since we know that....
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Yea...No. Mark Karapeles also placed his name in the public domain and lost over 100million in user's funds. Madoff's name was highly public, and well you know his story, and beyond. Having your name in the public means nothing.
Satoshi released Bitcoin without a premine and without a instamine where it's core features were changed after the initial launch.
Evan Duffield had chances to relaunch Dash without the instamine(After all only 2 days had passed), he did not. Evan Duffield could have made the instamine far less severe if he didn't drop the max coin supply from 80million to 22million, he did not. Evan Duffield could have made Dash less centralized if he voted for important things such as name changes, he did not and that is why Vertoe left the team.
Why would he not do all those things? Oh yes, because he likely heavily benefited from the instamine.