What other methods would you envision to compensate the developers and early-adopters?
None. Satoshi has done 99.99% of the hard work for you anyway.
Very funny. Nobody works for free. Do you?
No one asked you to make the coin, in fact several people have asked you not to. That's why you shouldn't be paid. I can't turn up at a random job tomorrow and demand payment for it.
Please stop making coins. I look on this forum almst every day, but I don't recognise lots of the coins. It is beyond a joke now. Please stop.