Having been a miner in both projects, I can tell you this is not true at all, there has not been instamine.
I can also say OBTC project is very fishy.
1) They will ban anyone in their discord talking about PBTC or being in PBTC discord
2) They will delete all discussions about difficulty algo change or pBTC
3) They claim PBTC is malicious even though they have no proof of it
4) They spam PBTC bitcointalk with BS
5) They denied TradeOgre listing, I believe this is because they want to manipulate Exbitron exchange prices
6) They already have FPGAs running in network, and they release a close source miner that has 30%dev fee dated "21 08 15" which could be 2021 08 15 or 21 08 2015, and is recognized in virustotal here:
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/dafa0bbb82261ab49aa4fe05360a7f42c5bc2c96730c730536b6c800674ab5d2?nocache=1New miners are not recognized, so they either have been mining for some time already without public knowledge or are using some existing miner and just put their name and dev fee on it.
7) OBTC has no interest in community development, so Exbitron exchange made their discord server
8. Official explorer has removed rich list, while the rtrax one has it. Top 3 wallets all have 100k coins+.
Lastly, the OBTC project has been silent mined since March 28, until some strange valuation explosion in November for no reason.
Probably these are some of the reasons PBTC decided to fork, even one of OBTC community devs seems to be in PBTC now instead, kev9, who created website for OBTC when OBTC devs didnt give a shit.
I think you are just spreading hate for a new project which is having a unique idea of optical miners.
Secondly there are real people with their identity open on twitter and LinkedIn and if any new project like pbtc will use the name or idea from obtc or opow then definitely they need to protect themselves by giving disclaimers about other copy projects to protect their names if in future there is a fake project.
What you say about no community developement. I think you have not been to discord. There is a community site, explorer, wildrig dev has given support to develope miner, many other people are helping here like helped in bridging to BSC chain. The core team is busy with the actual development of miner and other softwares.Go and check the GitHub, check the optical miner prototype. It, is people who believe and mine, they should work on community part and not development team, as they should be busy with core and other dev part.
There is no coin where the richlist don't have top wallets, check ravencoin or any coin they recently have boomed. Go and check the richlist.