Is BitShares really classified as an IPO coin? For months prior to release you could acquire a stake in the genesis block by either mining PTS or buying AGS directly. This method in my opinion was very fair in that you could mine if you have the cpu/gpu setup or purchase directly without mining anything!
Well it is, even in the title it clearly says IPO. I'm too lazy to go through my own posts or that thread, but I was there. I mined PTS and sold a lot of it back in the day. There could be some relating posts about that I do not remember.
That was too long ago.