I just came across this.
I won't quote your whole post, but you are right about most of the things you sad about minex, but there was a lot of mining and many early adopters got their money like that and not just for shilling, and you can sell your coins always no matter for how long they are parked.
sure they added a few gimmicks to distract from the main con.
which is you send them your BTC in exchange for their tokens and then they pay you interest in the form of their own token.
and then you have to go to market to sell those coins.
and they are the only market makers obviously.
their stabilizing algo is equivalent to the Bitconnect trading bot.
They are very clever at disguising it and only the noobs and the shills will turn a blind eye.
Bitconnect also had mining element.
You can put lipstick on a pig and call it Josephine but it's still pig.