What is the difference between "Circulating Supply", "Total Supply", and "Max Supply"?
Circulating Supply is the best approximation of the number of coins that are circulating in the market and in the general public's hands.
Indeed. And in VERI, the "circulating supply" by the best accounts that can be gleaned from this thread is the 98 Million, not the 2 Million. You're still making the false allusion to "circulating" and "non circulating" of exchange traded and OTC supplies respectively.
Would that all the premined wallet holders of the last few years could have gotten away with "hey my coins are not circulating so shouldn't be counted towards marketcap".
Whatever the letter of CMC reporting policy, it's being gamed to the extreme here.