If there is one thing I try to get John Connor to do is promote, market, or hype his coin, and he absolutely stubbornly refuses to do it yet. He is so anti-hype it is unbelievable and damaging to his coin's adoption. Seriously Smooth, he probably once 2 years ago said it was written from scratch and that was it. That one time statement has gotten your panties in a bunch for 2 years? Do you ever see Connor hyping his coin or saying he wrote it from scratch so invest in my coin? No, NEVER. I wish he would start.
Don't act naive. People look for coins that are not Bitcoin forks and consider that as a potential advantage as an investment. There was an obvious reason he said it was written from scratch and that is exactly to set it apart from the crowd of other coins that were also forks of Bitcoin. In fact, when he launched it he was explicitly asked whether it was a Bitcoin fork because people care about that in choosing coins and instead of admitting it, he decided to lie and claim it was written entirely from scratch (but then that was likely his plan all along, otherwise why obfuscate by reformatting the code and removing the comments?)
If, as you claim, it no longer matters that it was actually in large part an obfuscated Bitcoin fork, then he should just admit it, and put the his past mistakes behind him, which would indeed help settle the matter. He would no longer need to be pissed of at me for accurately calling him out on his lies and his continued denials, and therefore he would also no longer feel compelled to lash out in retaliation by lying about Monero exploits as fluffypony originally accused him (correctly) of doing, writing "full of shit" posts about Monero's data storage, etc.