Yes, I have mined the 50k NEB (someone shoot me). A dev should be able to have a small amount of his own coin regardless. We have to be able to fund future features and to pay for sever bills...(This "premine" will not be spent, most likely donated back into the community over-time, I was going to create some bounties today as one example).

We will be destroying 30k of the premine, Bittrex will have us back online soon.