It's called a fuck up.  Evan fucked up.  He didn't realize the damage until a block explorer was created, and by then, he had to decide, restart, when everyone had been mining days already, or just go forward.  He would have had a mutiny if he tried to restart, and the coin would have either 1. taken on a life of it's own without Evan, and died or 2. Nobody would come back to mine the second time.  So it was full speed ahead.

I still maintain that most of those coins were redistributed.  Huge numbers of coins were already exchanging hands before an exchange opened up.  They've been selling ever since at a low price.  It's a better distribution than if only miners had the coins, and wouldn't sell 'em.  This is such a dead end point, it's history.  No point in crying over it.  I've been here since the beginning, but I was such a newb, I couldn't get the mining to work (never mined before) until lotterymining opened up, so I ended up mining about 1400 coins, and I bought the rest.  I don't have much money, so buying 600 coins was very hard to do for me as I've been unemployed for quite some time, I just call myself retired.  I have bad arthritis so I can't even do a retail job.  Still, seriously, almost anyone can buy into darkcoin, it'd cost less than mining by a LOT since less than a month out from it's birth.  And the prices have now dropped even more because of our bickering.

Any person who thinks Darkcoin has a great future today has no excuse if they look back a year from now and see it's success, and have to say "gee why didn't I buy any dark back then!"

The opportunity has been here for 3 months now and continues, with prices super low today.  I bought at .0016 and .00146 or so, today it's .00135  I still think I got a deal.