What happened is a small group of early SPR investors decided to take matters into their own hands, since they disagreed with the direction of Spreadcoin development.
(They always wanted a DASH-Clone, I want to create tools (spreadwallet, spreadminer, testnet-in-a-box) so I can solve the puzzle of creating a truly decentralized network of servicenodes)
Because this group didn't want to let go of their advantage of having accumulated millions of SPR during the past 3 years, they decided to do a coin swap to transfer their holdings to a new coin and keep the percentages of their portfolio intact.
Is that why you deleted all my posts from spreadcointalk? So no-one could call you out on the fact that it was
you who created the split by explicitly challenging the other SPR technical contributors to recruit their own group of supporters and let the best team win? The copying of the public ledger to a more contemporary codebase is just the logical and entirely predictable consequences of your instigation.
I've never bought your story; 30 years in IT and still as trivially-minded and butt-hurt as a teenager? Doesn't add up for me. I've largely kept my own counsel on my extremely low opinion of your emotional maturity and intellectual depth as project lead because you've been doing such a good job of communicating it yourself, as the quoted posting above transparently attests.
You failed to take the hint - the Helium folks have bent over backwards, both to adhere to the community-oriented approach they believe in and to support the community of people supporting Spreadcoin from which they freely and earnestly acknowledge Helium's origin. This stance included maintaining a deliberate position of
not criticising the Spreadcoin project but instead presenting Helium as a completely independent alternative which, as I have observed, is an entirely logical and predictable consequence of your initial throwing down of the gauntlet.
By continuing to make these juvenile barbs, you continue to offer yourself as a rather sad figure of fun. Your emotional immaturity was what precipitated this “fork” in the first place and it was also the instrumental and direct cause of my terminating my contributions to Spreadcoin back in March of 2016 - I know a “kiss of death” when I see one.
Now that there is no longer anything that could be easily mis-described as dissent that can be hallucinated to hinder progress on Spreadcoin, I look forward to what are bound to be increasingly entertaining attempts on your part to explain the ever-widening gap between your descriptions of the world and the reality.
The only real hope for Spreadcoin is if you can actually manage to muster a mature response to this event instead of the transparently distorted juvenile view that you apparently hold and are, sadly, unable to rise above.
CheersGraham