Awesome logic. Thank you. I should then buy the stocks of the companies when their CEOs are cashing out completely. Hey, but wait a second, that doesn't work in financial markets. It has to be that financial markets are dumb.

Hope every features can be realized like the dev's imagine.

Last time I'm replying as you have clearly made your mind up already.  You must have some ulterior motive to be so passionate in dedicating so much of your time into something you think is a bad investment.   
Dev couldn't of won in this situation as if he bought into his own IPO people would have complained, if he would of kept some for himself people would have also complained.  You can't please everyone, someone is always going to be unhappy and It looks like that person is you this time.  Bad luck, jog on.

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  - premining (there was none)
  - dev will run away
  - dev has no incentive to continue the project
  - dev is a scammer
  - blah blah

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I will pass on. I will just say this -it is an unheard story with a CEO/founder selling his whole stake in his company/coin leaving him with no vested interest. It is a wishful thinking that this CEO/founder is driven by non-pecuniary motives and will run the business by putting much effort, as the IPO was all about money.

Have you read this? https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/699278.msg7908476#msg7908476

I think you might be missing one important point: the massive ICO and the massive BTC trading volume of the past 24 hours demonstrate enormous, untapped interest in blockchain 2.0 technology - in cyptocurrency applications that go beyond just exchanging value through coins transfers.

Given the remarkable demonstration of the market's interest in this, VIA's dev would seem to have a very strong *pecuniary* interest in adding value to his VIAcoin holdings - no? - as well as burnishing his reputation as a blockchain 2.0 pioneer. A reputation like that in the years to come will be worth a fortune. A reputation as a scammer - eh, not so much.

Scammers are generally short-sighted in that they dont recognise that there's a lot more money to be made in meeting/exceeding people's expectations/interests/needs than in scamming people. Via's dev has to realise that this coin could reach the level of DRK and XC at their heights - and beyond - if he delivers on even part of the promise.

I don't know much about this dev, but what little I've read and seen suggests to me that he is not stupid and short-sighted.

I wouldn't say your criticisms are FUD - just that they're perhaps a bit premature. The market's judgement seems to be that, after watching him develop and lead one of the smoothest and most successful ICOs ever, it's willing to wait and see what else this dev can do before jumping to conclusions.

Would it be reasonable to assume miners will dump on the price?

Nope seeing as there is only 9 btc worth of Via mineable a day at current prices.

3600 blocks a day * 10 Via reward = 36k Via a day from miners. Current price of say 0.00025000 * 36000 = 9 BTC

Since I'm mining with no rewards, I have earned 0.035 via in my pool, is that from transaction fee being paid to the miners?