I know enough about mining to know I can go to miningrigrentals, get some hash, point it at a pool, and get rewarded for it

Was the initial launch good?  No, not at all, it was a bit of a fail, but there was plenty of buy walls on ccex that readily bought my sells.
Then there was some kind of blockchain hack or something...remember, this is ages ago, so time lines can get disjointed, all coins were brought back to Banx and held there, wallets were changed etc etc alcurex and ccex delisted...and so we are where we are now.

No, I am not an employee of Banx.
Banx is one of my several (only a handful) crypto investments that I really believe in, so please stop pissing on my investment just because you don't have all the information readily at your disposal to "understand".

If you want to "understand", pick up the phone and talk, you know, like adults do.