OP---> You do realize that the Ethereum Project was an ICO right? The majority of the pre-mine ether went to the pre-sale wallets, so your original premise has lead you down a very slippery slope....However, you have great energy--->keep up your research and your competency will increase along the way. I think you may find that the knowledge and the skills you've acquired over the course of your studies will be very valuable someday.
Can you prove that the buyers of the ICO was real? If not, crowd sale = premine.
So they did not made any money with the ICO?
is this another FUD?
Pajeet make 100,000,000,000 coins
Pajeet sell 1 coin for $1 to hes brother Pansun
Now we have $100,000,000,000 capitalisation
WOW!!!
This is a really good point!
I'm going to make a coin and call it DAVE.
Create a website for $500 with loads of impressive looking plagiarised BS.
Run an ICO that looks like I am selling most of the coins, but in actual fact I am keeping 90%+ and at point in future I can create more.
Set an ICO price an incentivise ppl to buy.
BINGO! in terms of market cap & value of my coins i'm a alt coin billionaire.