Coin was released, mining started. Not the other way around. Do you know what a premine is?
The coin was released only to the dev's VMs.
"You want me to trust your assertion that you accidentally mined 2 million coins and didn't relaunch to validate your claim of a fair launch?" says Institutional Investor.
"But it was an accident!" says Evan.
"Get out of my office." says Institutional Investor.