Imo, jumping on R9 280x was one of the first mistakes in this coin.
If you open up a car shop, you dont start selling Feraris and Mazerratis right away, you start with the cheap crap and expand from there.
Now, if only those werent IPO money... perhaps then the creator of the coin wouldnt have been so quick to jump on the expensive stuff...
Jaymes held votes to determine what the customer base wanted to purchase from the store, and stocked the store accordingly. He didn't just arbitrarily chose cards which were too expensive.