I liked how I0coin had a countdown, that felt "fair" and probably helps smooth out the original distribution.
It didn't seem fair to me. It was (and is still) quite broken. It was a countdown till most people could mine. "Come back after we mine 5000 blocks." Um, that is not exactly what I call fair. I bet the first 40k coins went to one or two people. Yeah, kinda like ixcoin.
Then again, I still sold my i0coins for BTC, so I am not complaining.
Oh, look. i0coin.exe just crashed again.
I stand corrected. I was under the mistaken impression that the countdown was for ALL mining, and that the starting difficulty would be close to the current Bitcoin difficulty.