You may want to check the actual history and reevaluate that opinion in light of things like this:

http://www.darkcoin.guide/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/masternode_payment_plan.png

Oh wait, that link is dead.  Now why would Evan want to hide the evidence?

Too bad for Duffield the HYIP salesman this exists:

http://web.archive.org/web/20150601003557/http://darkcoin.guide/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/masternode_payment_plan.png



If ^that^ isn't "targeting speculative value" I don't know what is.