1. Its been proven over and over....ppl do not donate. I am not against sensible premining (<2%)
3.early adopters should have advantages but not in the form of instamine. But reslly forget about the linear curve.
4. Its already that easy. In the wallet-qt with mine button
1. Ok, but 0.001 should be enough for a long-term coin. We're just talking about numbers here, which are infinitely divisible, so it should just be a matter of putting a temporary letter before the coin name, for example mBTC = 0.001BTC.
3. Why is that important? A serious coin have to start out small, ofc, there wont be as much hype about it, but at some point people must get tired of all these "buy an island", "go to the moon"-coins.