1) Multipool was up before the source was posted.
2) Multipool had 2 addresses, they took turns working on and off for the first 15 minutes.
3) There were 90 blocks when I compiled the source and synced.
There is nothing here to indicate a scam to me.
However, the launch is a mess for a few reasons:
1) Pre-announcing the coin means there will be a ton of pools and a lot of problems
2) Counting on one pool to be set up ahead of time as a way of being a "fair start" just means there's only one pool to DDOS for others to gain an advantage.
3) Hyping this coin up yet starting with such a low difficulty leads to problems.
Also, stop announcing coins ahead of time when all you have is a name.
Thanks for the reasonable analysis.
Your points are all well taken, but what I will say is a success in all of this is that the blockchain did not fork!