Everything that was done was publicly disclosed and auditable. Once employees are paid with donated funds (as intended by the donors) then the funds are theirs to buy lattes or donate to BitShares as they see fit. Not a double dip at all - and all traceable on the blockchains and explained on public ledgers. 100% of all donations (and their resulting sharedrop dividends) are dedicated to developing the industry. Zero profits were retained by Invictus and developers were paid merely average salaries. Their year end bonuses bring them up to full pay for people of their caliber but they will have to live off those earnings for a while, because now they are all in elected positions that pay 1/4 of what they had been making.
There was no premine. The very first ProtoShares (PTS) block was actually mined by Super3 of StorJ fame. Our developers had to buy and rent their own mining equipment just like everyone else. Most of our mining equipment, in fact, never got turned on because because it arrived three weeks late, after an overwhelming number of miners jumped into the action in those early weeks. So, it was a classic mining gold-rush distribution where everybody got the same shot. And that well accepted fair distribution was used by our innovative "share drop" approach to distribute shares fairly in future DACs. Another innovation was our version of simulated mining (AGS) where an alternative fair distribution profile was generated via in a 200 day donation contest. Now we had two very fair distribution profiles (one for miners and one for donors) which were used to sharedrop tokens in BTSX (now BTS) instead of using wasteful mining over and over again.
I could go on, but suffice it to say that every move has been debated and vetted transparently on bitsharestalk.org.
NewMine is an outstanding propagandist. He has an amazing ability to take everything that happened in broad daylight and turn it into a dark conspiracy theory. You can believe his vandalistic tales if you want.
They will only cost you a big opportunity.
That doesn't really hurt anybody, does it?
He's just having a little harmless fun.
Or you can come on over to bitsharestalk.org and do your own research.
Sometimes you want to go,
where everybody knows our (real) names.