Sometimes I do think the pool ops care more about a coin then the devs.
Dev has
230 MILLION coins, think he gives a shit really? He'll pump&dump it in no time. His giveaways are a big smokescreen, as always with gigantic premines.
We certainly do care about this coin and will not be dumping any coins anytime soon. We've invested a lot of money into marketing - way more than most coins. The fact that this coin has been fairly successful so far (on two exchanges on launch day), despite possible bugs and issues with pool confirmations shows you that there is a good community already building around this coin.
http://i.imgur.com/pA781n1.pngThat was around 9 hours when piCoin was launched.