Looks like dev made an effort to try and buy back some from the first day rich list guys. They recovered a portion of the coins, which showed good faith. The other sellers did not want to sell them, but they are getting diluted out more and more each day and by the time exchange comes they will either dump and then market will set the price or they will hodl. In either case a 23 hour mining issue of 20X block rewards will become less and less important. Once those coins are diluted more I will see if mining or buying on exhange at low price seems smarter.
You keep mentioning this rich list. Where is it? How does it enable the Devs to contact people?
Please maybe someone could show us a richlist for Monero , Aeon or ByteCoin... anonymity algo?

This is impossible, they only way is to get in touch with PO (or own pools) to get the wallet addresses and try to find some of them.
Exactly my point which is why I'm very curious to hear an explanation from "jimlite" about how there a rich list that the Devs apparently used to contact people. 1) You cannot create a rich list for CryptoNote coins and 2) to the best of my knowledge none of the IPBC pools require registration of any kind. Even if they did, I can't imagine that the pool owners would simply hand over contact information on request. Not if they wanted to be taken seriously by miners of privacy focused coins ever again.