The development team should update the thread with the exact time the main net mining goes live, or at least tell us that they plan on releasing the mining start time. Otherwise this gives a mining advantage to whomever knows the exact launch time.

Sure, “a couple of days” after the snapshot is fine when updating on final QA but they should elaborate on this exactly when things are ready, then give a definitive time (preferably at least a few hours) for the main net launch so all the miners can start the race at the same time. I know suprnova usually switches from test to main automatically which is a solution for some but does not address the core issue.

Unless there is another valid reason for this such as avoiding chain splits or 51% attacks?