Re: NEM (XEM) Official Thread - 100% New Code

Was this coin distributed as an airdrop in the beginning?

The very first people to express an interest got free stakes. Then it moved on to a pretty piddling amount. I think it was 0.045 BTC. That might have risen as more people got on board but I think the total amount gathered was only about 65 BTC.

History of the Redemption Process:
https://forum.nem.io/t/not-claiming-nemstake-why-it-is-no-longer-possible-and-the-history-of-the-process/2859

From the Final Development Contract:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_0Z9jDGHPxPbndmbm96eW1XaEk/view

Initial fund raising = 66.2 BTC + 419,697 NXT (minus some refund)

It was 10$ for one 2250000 stake in the beginning

It was free (reply "interested" to the thread) in the beginning.
Also quite free it was if made some meme or writing to other web sites ...
The payment increased after every 10 pages :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=422129.msg4592223#msg4592223