1. How could the difficulty level have increased so quickly if nobody was mining? That makes no sense. People were indeed mining. The developers and his buddies were mining along with a few people who had 1000 cpus or 500 cpus. They got the early coins. Mining was going on for 12 hours before the first pool was up with all the smaller users getting no blocks. Only those with 50+ CPUs got blocks before 1gh was up.
Your evidence for that is what? I solomined this coin even though I was too late for the launch. I got some blocks. I am not a friend of the developers. I have no contact with the developers other than this forum. I do not own a botnet, or use cloud mining.
If you were unlucky enough to not mine a block, then that is nothing other than bad luck. Please stop with the FUD and personal attacks.
I agree that this wasn't a smooth launch, but I've taken part in worse, and have gone on to successfully mine coins.
This is complete BS. 99.99% of people did not get a block. If you did it was either because A. you have a lot of hashing power B. You got about as lucky as someone winning the grand prize on a scratch off.
On top of that, your block size was voted on by people who either A. had a lot of hashing power OR B. got about as lucky as someone winning the grand prize on a lottery scratch off.