Is it true that XEM has been initially distributed via Airdrop? There was no ICO, some private sale or similar?
Part of it was Airdrop. Part of it was 'given away' for a 'nominal donation' so read that as you will. But it wasn't like a typical ICO where you get more tokens the more money you put in - the initial NEM distribution was all based on Stakes and those were given to people in this forum based on unique usernames.
Who were the 5 lucky ones that got 4 725 000 206 XEM or 52,86% of the "airdrop" ?
What is the current circulating supply?
If CoinMarketScam (
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/nem/ ) is correct: 8 999 999 999 XEM, it's the most greedy PoS scam project ever, with only 61,363,334 XEM or 0.686% earned in almost 3.5 years.
Here you can see the final distribution statistics and explanation of the various funds nem has:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TKTIakxUEotmTN4Et80EI7d-8XifgFZ4aBUGAukgLfY/edit#And here is the rich list with the different fund addresses named:
https://nemnodes.org/richlist/Current rich list says nothing, 'cause it's too easy to redistribute the coins.
So, it's Sustainability Fund, Marketing Fund (Launch/V1 Reward), Operational Costs Fund I, Pre-V1 Fund & Post-V1 Fund.
And Sustainability Fund got about 24% or more than 1/3 of Stakeholder Community Distribution because of sock puppets and unclaimed stakes.
And who controls the above mentioned funds?