Apologies to harp on this thread, but it would be sneaky if I added this as an edit to a prior post.
Zerotime is a very significant claim. When you make bold claims that have the potential to seriously challenge Bitcoin, you will be held to a higher standard of scholarly proof.
On a related note, I'd love to see some of these whitepapers actually submitted to an academic journal for peer review.
Btw, I think I have a solution of how to achieve zerotime. But I do it an entirely different way and my solution doesn't require all peers to see all transactions, so even if John fixes his, I've still got him beat (assuming my white paper comes together which is not finished yet).
Be careful you're not reinventing the Lightning network, which seems the logical conclusion for what a "fixed" version of ZeroTime would look like.