The lack of a fair launch is troubling. 5 friends from discord getting together on a channel that no one has any way of finding and calling it "public" does not make a fair launch.
Maybe someone can make a x16s fork called "Hawkcoin", make an ANN
FIRST, NOT LAST and set a 48-hour countdown to launch?
Edit: you gotta love this gem from the ANN:
On day five, I asked our group of twelve to start onboarding more miners...
Admits that for 5 days, no attempt was made to grow beyond 12 people. Please, please read that again: TWELVE PEOPLE WERE THE ONLY ONES MINING FOR 5 DAYS. These 12 are going to get rich from your buys.
Yup which = premined.