Not really free.

First, the computers that were infected/hacked used a lot of energy to create Hashes and someone had to pay for that electricity bill.

Second, the dumping likely caused a negative price-spiral that effected in other LEOcoin owners seeing their value drop.

Third, LEOcoin Foundation, LEO Ltd. and others where falsely accused of dumping, where in fact they kept on mining and supporting LEOcoin.

Fourth, the reputation and popularity of LEOcoin was damaged.


Meanwhile LEOcoin Foundation and others have worked on finding solutions. There will be a new wallet, the LEOxChange will get faster, and when the POS proposal gets an affirmative vote, the staking mechanism will in a fair and cost-effective way reward those who own and stake LEOcoins.