Thats good to know about CLINT and someone posted a snip of code that confirms the pre-mine. For fun I grabbed the source of Billary Coin and took a look at Main.cpp
int64_t nSubsidy = 100 * COIN;
if(nBestHeight == 0)
{
nSubsidy = 857143 * COIN
So as you can see the pre-mine on billary is 857143 coins or about 2% by the end of POW where there will be 42 million coins. This coin will generate around 1 million coins a week so in the first week POW will exceed the pre-mine. You can open the source in a text editor and read the code, so I think it would be quite easy for anyone to figure out or confirm a premine on a coin if a dev tried to hide it by not disclosing or not have a block explorer for example.
Exactly, the "about 2%" you refer to is because the premine isn't counted towards the total supply the way I built the blockchain, the total supply is actually 42,000,000 + the premine, so actually 42,857,143 is the real number, But I figured it was fine listing the 42,000,000 as the total cause that's a much rounder number, and it's the true mineable amount. If this is at all seems sketchy, please tell me and I'll change the total coins listing from the OP, I don't want for a minute to be associated with devs that try to cheat or hide information. So technically the premine is 2.040816% of the true coin total, or 2% of the minable 42,000,000. I should have built the blockchain to accommodate for a nice round number with the premine included... but you live and you learn!
And for anyone wondering, With the giveaways and bounties, almost 200,000 BLRY from the pre-mine has been given to the community, and that's not including the deals I'm negotiating with developers to join the team, which will also come out of the pre-mine. And full disclosure, I've also sold about 20k on the exchanges, because well, I wanted to take Team Billary's better half out to a nice dinner to celebrate the launch
