Wow respect, i see some people who usually stand on morale high ground here defending and shilling for such a scam mining.... wtf is going on here.
I didn't read whole thread. But many times did parts and i dont see if anyone defend and shill anything. Developers decided how will mining went and announced in advance. And it went exactly as they planed. They have right to do it.
For me it was strange, but it seems it worked for them. Lets see how will go next. They have quite soem troubles with security.