Hi teknohog,
The Ship of Theseus query is warranted, my rebuttal would be that as long as we stay true to the core improvements originally pioneered by Boolberry then everything else is an upgrade. Other crypto projects have done the same although I can't think of many that have improved as much as we have. Moreover, as long as your coins are transferable through the hardfork, it would also further reinforce this theory. I guess a relevant analogy would be like restoring a classic car. Even though one would upgrade and modernize certain areas it would still be the same vehicle. Although in this case its more like an aftermarket performance upgrade i.e. adding Supercharger/Blower etc.
To avoid confusion we reached out to the original dev of the abandon project DBL and acquired the subreddit r/doubloon from him along with permission rights to the name. I know it sounds ridiculous but in the unregulated crypto space this is how things work. The Github header "These are not the Doubloons you're looking for" points to our subreddit.
We've also been in communication with the group doing the DBL reboot and they've indicated that their reboot will be under a different name.
https://github.com/RazorLove/doubloonshttps://www.reddit.com/r/doubloon/Also, the project formerly known as Doubloon[BOAT] who didn't bother to reach out to the original dev in the first place before choosing the name, has been renamed to Boat[BOAT] which is reflected on coinmarketcap. Moving forward there won't be any confusion.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.24626351All that said, other CN projects have rebranded i.e. ducknote -> darknote -> digitalnote with upgrades to their codebase although none have made major improvements to the underlying protocol like we have. It's worth noting is that this project itself was rebranded from HoneyPenny to Boolberry.
Lastly, just to clarify - we explored the concept of launching this as a separate project, one with no hardfork. The most obvious problem is that over the last 7 months, the research and development team have been compensated in BBR so it makes sense for us to approach this as a fork to the new codebase rather than a fresh project. Our intentions here have always been to reestablish this project as the benchmark privacy project by advancing the technology beyond any competitors. This direction was the quickest way to achieve that goal.