My suggest for resolving the premine problem is:
1. apologize to the community for the cheat
2. preserve 10% of the total coin issued as compensation and further development fund,
but give away all the left you controlled to bitcointalk users if they fulfill the following two requirements:
Ghosh ownership
A. his account must be registered to bitcointalk before today
B. his must issue a request with his BCN address.
Sharecoin's approach to distribute coin is a good example: you could build a simple webpage, and check registered user for their bitcointalk signature for validation.
Then user who invest to MRO/QCN/FCN/.... will come back to BCN,
and BCN will build its position like BTC to cryptocoin and LTC to scrypt.
Considering innovation/strength/feature/community, BCN will beat DRK after that.
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You will see BCN to die without anyone have the willing to buy.
Too pity to see that BCN dies while MRO/QCN/FCN arise.
And indeed this situation also hurt the whole CryptoNote world, not limited to BCN itself.
I don't believe the devs even control a significant amount of it, and they're just not saying anything because they want to keep people away while they finalize the wallet. It's likely locked in some form of fund with the key thrown away, and the only way to get any out is through the wallets. They're not dumb enough to forget about trustlessness.
I wonder why till today? I mean there was already a comment describing what dev should do and when why not till that day??