For me, the lesson to learn here is again the importance of marketing. If SpectreCoin was known to a wider public, they couldn't pull this off. Now they compare themselves to Bitcoin, Monero, Dash and ZCash. And it only occurs to very few that SpectreCoin is missing from the list. This seems to be the main problem for me. Being widely known would give us a protection from being copied so blatantly.
Contrary to what it seems, this favors the marketing of SpectreCoin.
Our community feels the obligation to warn investors, about the high probability of buying a fraud, in the TokenPay ICO.
I see what you say, but if they actually pursue their goals in their whitepaper and capitalize on what you have achieved, combined with their aggressive marketing, they may have an advantage in moving the same technology (invented/put together by SpectreCoin) towards mainstream adoption. By now, they have collected 13% of the market cap of XSPEC and not a day passed yet from their ICO.
On the other hand, your reasoning may prevail if our community keeps up the pressure and keeps debunking this fraud on their Twitter and on their forum here on Bitcointalk as well, so that those who are interested in the technology can invest in the original and not in the copied version that costs 5 times the price and more. So I think it is crucial now that our community is actively protesting on their forums.
https://twitter.com/tokenpay
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2400499.new#new
As I see, so far we are quite active there fortunately!