Thinking further, you could have achieved something similar by refusing to allow coins to be traded for X weeks. E.g. no coins at all can be sold until the firs

Thinking further, you could have achieved something similar by refusing to allow coins to be traded for X weeks. E.g. no coins at all can be sold until the first 2 weeks of mining become available all at once. It's fair-ish distribution, without the absurd trading game that followed the Zcash release.