Apologies if I expressed animosity in my postings about VanillaCoin. Such would be counter productive.

I guess I was aggravated that I would investigate and then find not even documentation of the main claimed innovation and vaporware for the claimed anonymity Dark-PP. To his credit, he promptly corrected the deficiency on documentation of the zerotime (but not yet on the Dark-PP) and provided a more detailed white paper.

Perhaps his zerotime algorithm can be rescued somehow, but I don't see how to do it.

For example, even the transaction fee can't be forfeited when there is a lock conflict stalemate, because innocent victims could be attacked by attacking the P2P network with a Sybil attack.

Sybil attacks and game theory have to be considered in great detail when designing any consensus network or even an anonymity network.

john-conner should be aware that I've been working on these short of designs for a long time too.

He is obviously knowledgeable about some research I wasn't. So maybe he has something else up his sleeve, but we don't see it in what he has published thus far.