He gave most of them away.  CHAOSiTEC, whom I also miss terribly, has only 2% of what he mined.  He gave away over 18,000 coins.  All because they believed in the coin AND because they KNEW an isolated coin, that was in the hands of a few has no VALUE!  It's called enlightened self interest.  So unless you believe big coin holders from the "instamine" want to hurt themselves, or the coin, you couldn't believe they still had all that coin.  And it seems, from people studying the blockchain, that nobody held on to the early coins like that.  And I believe that most of the large wallet holders have been identified as exchanges, even which exchange.

I'm so sick of this subject but feel I have to explain each time these FUD spreaders come in, so that newbs have the facts, the WHOLE facts, not the glossy, "everyone is a crook" scandalous facts. https://darkcointalk.org/threads/the-birth-of-darkcoin.162/