Can someone answer my question about the 10 million premined coins? Who owns them, why are those idle, and what are the plans to do with them?
If those coins will be brought to market, it will have a big influence on the price compared to the 1 million coins which are available for trading at the moment.
They have not been touched, they are in cold storage. There will be a smart contract that will lock them up implemented soon. (The contract code is already made)
The way the smart contract works is that it makes them impossible to move for 90 days, and that is 90 days from when the contract is unlocked, and the unlocking is public. This will give us time to get the DAO coded, and make people feel more safe.
Homestead is coded and being updated at a certain block, and I believe after that the test contract goes in, we test that a couple days, and then the time lock contract for the 10 million goes in and then people can feel extra safe. Although the team is public and clearly we are in this for the long run, I think it is crucial that smart contracts are implemented to make people feel even more secure.