You mean like Satoshi secretly worked on an advanced version of his original Bitcoin? These rumours go around yes. Unsubstantiated and I do not claim either true or false, but there are people that believe JC was very close to the fire of Bitcoin's inception.
I mean the whole hype around it. I really appreciate the technology and useful innovation but it looks too good to be true for an investor. Almost all big altcoin pumps that I remember happened unexpectedly after a long price stagnation. It is important to separate the tech side from price expectations. They don't always go hand in hand.
You never seen hype then: MZC, AUR, BC, DRK (Dash), XC, Cloak, XST, CANN. They all had HYPE, VNL doesn't have even a half of it, with working ZeroTime.
+1 well said. Also like what etoque said.