I assert that John Allen Frey was the original developer of Gapcoin
Your assertion may has been proven wrong since j0nn9 (Jonny Frey) has been active on bitcointalk on March 23, 2018! Also he (or his script) has updated
http://gapcoin.org/primegaps-length.php on September 10, 2019!
At this 5th year milestone, I would like to thank Jonny and all the supporters of the GapCoin project. New record prime gaps await us ahead!
It's all rather odd indeed, I agree.
Despite my attempts to contact those potentially involved, no one has come forward, yet !
The gapcoin.org website remains hosted and clearly someone still has access to update it, perhaps it's Dr. Thomas R. Nicely ?
Clearly whoever is updating the site has more interest in the prime gaps over markets and value etc., Notice that the market links on the homepage have not been updated, for example.
Assuming that John Allen Frey was j0nn9 (Jonny Frey), we can only determine that as he clearly became unwell he might of passed certain aspects of the project to one of his peers, colleagues, academic faculty, an associate or perhaps a family member ?
No one in the gapcoin community here on bitcointalk has been able to determine otherwise. The record and bounty were certainly published from j0nn9's account, being the last post to date from that account.
It's certainly not me and I don't know who it is at present.
I am the sole owner and contributor to the
https://gapcoin.club website though.
EDIT: This doesn't hinder Gapcoin moving forward, if anything it's a good thing !
Not only was the gapcoin.org -
Gapcoin's new first known occurrence prime gaps page edited (as above), but also ...
Gapcoin's highest found merits as of 2019 September 10 (Top 30)-
http://gapcoin.org/primegaps-merits.phpCrazy mathematicians !
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4chan Just Solved A Decades-Old Mathematical Mystery ...
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https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/an-anonymous-online-anime-fan-just-solved-a-problem-thats-been-eluding-mathematicians-for-decades/...
In other news ...
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https://cointelegraph.com/news/adam-back-creating-altcoins-more-attractive-than-building-on-bitcoin“In the history of altcoins, it seemed like there was a period where there were a huge number of them that had no features. [...] And that played out. And then people started to need a new way to market them, so they added features. Some of them were real features, and some of them were stories to market [their altcoins].” - Adam Back.
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"Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper too?" ...-
https://youtu.be/yndq8jeSPc8
