Most people don't have the benefit of an (expensive) education in following tiny silver/gold exploration/development stocks.
I've learned to avoid the 'old prospector and his mule' fly-by-night operations, and stick to the definitely-will-be-acquired ones.
I can confirm the bad ones follow a pattern, wherein they burn tons of cash generated by stock dilution then try to turn it around by changing the name/logo/brand/website and doing a reverse split.
VNL is following in their ignoble tradition.
But VNL can't escape its copyright-infringing origins any more than the rebrand to Dash helped Darkcoin make everyone forget about its massive insta-mine, bad crypto, and 20 hour mixing times.
The universe has uniquely trained people like us to understand crypto.
I am not a coding whiz, but a long time ago I did spend some years studying it at college, and through that and my own tech explorations I am comfortable with concepts like open source and understand why they are so superior. I cringe when I think of the legions that don't have a clue about what they are buying and only own Ethereum because 4chan gave them a hot tip.
I am not an investing mogul, and have lost my money in markets twice. But I sure as hell learned how pink sheets work, how to build hype for a real vs a fake product, how bid/ask stack manipulation happens, and the importance of due diligence. I cringe when I think of people who have never traded an asset in their life exposed to some of the tactics in crypto trading. I double cringe when I think about how easily these people can obtain large sums of margin.
Finally, a healthy dose of worldly wisdom is needed to see that powerful people can often be wrong, and money can be abstracted to almost anything - but the unique properties of crypto make it especially viral and powerful.
No one likes the years and dollars it cost to obtain these lessons, but when the next opportunity rolls around you realize it was all worth it. This time you are prepared to take advantage of it.
Hopefully John deploys apps to google play and app store in the next days. If it was widely accepted in stores... ooooh maan it's way better than Visa/Mastercard. 
