I didn't mean to change the topic, or call anyone out here, but the facts are the facts and I'm not going to hide them... The launch was bad, 1.85mil was mined in just the first 24 hours. Only a linux version was compiled, so very few people got a large chunk of this 1.85mil (1850 MNs)...
It is what it is...
Also, anyone who mines, mines on linux. Only newbs like myself wouldn't know how. I figured it out by the 3rd day. I was researching before that, trying to learn from scratch. I don't think I "lost out" I learned something new, and it was a great experience. I didn't know about mining with Amazon until 2 or so months in. Just before gpus came out. I was ignorant, I learned. If others can't be bothered, it equates to giving away your knowledge, which is your only advantage, and thus socialism, which I personally am against.
Now when I see people complaining about "no windows miners" I just laugh.
I was trying to mine every coin launch with my few modest little home computers and occasional cloud instances back in the day and there definitely were pro instaminers with huge farms who had been doing it for a long time. And I mean people who had scripts for downloading and compiling the source, and firing up the wallet and start mining the second the source became available type of scripts.