He is working at some NXT sub-projects.
KHARON, you might have heard about it. It's about finding a way to make POS based systems secure against application level DDOS attacks.
As for BCNext... yes, who knows.
But Qora really doesn't seem like BCNext. The style of development is utterly different. Don't go that way.
If this coin is to thrive, there has to be someone skilled working on the coin to further the cause.
Qora did his job by releasing the coin.
Don't count on him to finish it all the way through.
Some fresh developer blood is needed to get things really going around here. It won't be stillborn, but it will not get close to a project like NXT. It will move into the realm of shitcoins.
It is there, it works, it is traded. But there isn't really any intrinsic value to it (currently only devs provide real intrinsic value)
Cfb is working on "Nxt related" projects, yes. But Qora is still here. He's not going anywere.
As for Qora is BCNext:
1. He doesn't care about money. He could gather at least 1000 BTC during IPO, but the only thing he did is created ANN topic and posted updates once in a while.
2. He write "can not" instead of "cannot".
3. He doesn't worry about a nice logo, website, even open topic look. It's one of the uglyest OP on the forum. The same as Nxt's.
4. He doesn't spend a lot of time on the forum, but coding instead. He even missed IPO closing! So he's super focused on the code.
5. He is Europian.
6. He invented new POS algorithm.
7. He's working on anonymous transactions.
8. He postponed IPO because he didn't want to have the same problem that Nxt has.
9. Both Qora and Nxt have great names. Qora sounds awesome, Nxt was the right name for the first 2nd gen coin. So equally great.
10. He never denied he's not the same person.
11. BCNext finished coding on Nxt and 1 month later - there was a Qora.
12. BCNext's original hero account (one of NXTers guess) was again abandoned and 2 weeks later - there was a Qora.
13. As for the distribution - mining is lame, it is better to have IPO whales who can easily provide bounties for future development and marketing.