Boys and girls it's not FUD if it's true.
Where is the proof that the premine is still intact?
It is a simple thing to provide a veiwkey.
Since it is not being provided one can only assume nefarious reasons.
I'm not a cryptographer or a programmer, but my understanding is that a viewkey only shows current balance and incoming transactions in CryptoNote for privacy reasons. CaptDero has said he is working on a way to provide an independent way of verifying the premine balance, but as of now this is, indeed, a matter of trust, rather than proof.
But definitely not a case of "one can only assume nefarious reasons"; there are plenty of innocent reasons for the premine to remain unlocked and some of them have been posted to this thread.
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By lying about the ASIC change they not only caused the value to drop because of inflation but alienated a large segment of their base that would have bought those asics and didn't or even worse SOLD those asics at a loss only to find out they were planning all along not to change the algo and kept it from the community.
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I was pretty butthurt about the reversal on ASIC-resistance, too, but that was >1 month ago and I've since gotten over it. Furthermore, CaptDero did explain why he decided to stick with CNv0, and while I still don't entirely agree with his reasons, I do think his reasons are, well, reasonable.