Semantics. Premine is a term for cryptocoins where traditionally, the start date of the network is announced after the mining protocol and software is released

Semantics. Premine is a term for cryptocoins where traditionally, the start date of the network is announced after the mining protocol and software is released to the public. When a cryptocoin dev team intentionally takes control of part of the supply of the cryptocoins before releasing the minting protocol/process/supply to the general public then it's considered 'pre-mined' because traditionally as with BTC/LTC/DOGE/etc, the public was informed of the protocol and presumably all users given access to generate the coins as a reward for fueling the network activity. In the case of antshares, the basecoin being %100 premined would almost seem more like a stock in the project as apparently coin ownership is a precursor to generating the secondary token which is used as fuel for the services provided.