There are also some false claims such as their staking being more energy efficient, when it is an exact line for line clone of Peercoin, just rewritten in C++ 11.
Videlicet was referring at that time to the code that John Connor had uploaded to github. John later revealed that it was 'fake' code designed to throw off haters or whatever.
So, videlicet was correct about the code that he saw. But it turned out that it wasn't the actual code of the coin. Just a trick to throw off haters/catch people out/waste the time of code reviewers.
No, john was referring to the zerotime test code and fake whitepaper for zerotime, not the committed code that has been open sourced and able to be compiled for some time.