This is all very interesting but really what are we trying to demonstrate here?
Can you just spell out your hypothesis here so we can analyse it once and for all? I'm not saying you're correct or incorrect.
QRK started as a scam? and those involved were somehow got unfair advantage? - i don't think even if that was the intention it worked out like that.
All of this seems fairly improbable since stephen lamb took more or less the vast majority of easy coins along with a couple of other hash whales. These people to my knowledge dumped them all pretty soon after,reducing the price to arond 60 sats and keeping it down below 200 sats for some time.
Let's just get this all out in the open , deal with it and then forget about it. The origins of the coin and those involved are not all that important at this stage to me. I feel that whatever the start only a few well known hash whales that had bots monitoring the board grabbed it all up and then lost interest and dumped. DI told bill, he brought in a ton of investors, they grabbed a little of each and sit on it. There is not much for sale. Little sells and buys make the price fluctuate a lot. The vast majority never comes near the market.
How's the steam games project going?
I remember that at the beginning of the Quark there was attempts to steal Quarks from miners or careless wallet owners. Some thief(ves) made fake wallet in order to steal Quarkcoins.
This does not mean Quark is scam at all.
Unfortunately I have involved in mining Quarks after few months, not from beginning.