The anonymous gang around smooth ... if their real motives surface
I don't believe that. Smooth has helped many people on this forum and he even defended JC:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.17086298What smooth didn't like was that JC was making claims of being a supreme expert and that all his code was original and yet he was actually using code from Bitcoin and his algorithms and whitepapers were lacking. (I am not defending iCEBREAKER who tends to be too political and hyper-critical of any coin he is not invested in)
JC is apparently a reasonably talented P2P (Bittorrent) dev (as I had long since publicly speculated that he was) and perhaps could be a great team member on a coin if his attitude improved (didn't he do good work in the past in Bittorrent group development?), but he is not capable of creating any significant breakthroughs for our ecosystem by himself (as evident by the half-ass shit Zerotime and anonymity he produced). You shills can go on and on about "break it if you can", but it doesn't change the fact that we are collection of experts and we know what the fuck we are talking about. And you don't! So STFU or go on babbling your ignorance, your choice.
JC mislead speculators. Period. And for that he is receiving some animosity.
If he wants to come back, be non-anonymous subject to public scrutiny and improve his ethics (and cut out the drugs!), then maybe the community will give him another chance. But he needs to build a team of devs. One man shows are impossible. This stuff is way too complex and too much work for a one man development team.
I am not saying that he never had an original design idea. Apparently he made many tweaks which resulted in some better performance and compression characteristics. But those aren't apparently game changers. I know you Vcash supporters think they are, but I have a surprise coming for you.
Smooth et al stopped policing the altcoin discussion forums. They let JC destroy himself. You n00b speculators are so easily fooled, because you don't think clearly. You believe any technobabble that is thrown your direction. Or maybe you don't care, as long as you can fool some other n00bs. And this always backfires in the end. Only correct effort and honesty workout in the long-run.
Ethics matter a lot for success. Those who cut corners end up failing. So don't blame your failure on smooth.