You guys are taking the from scratch thing way too literally. When you make mashed potatoes from scratch, do you grow the potatoes and churn the butter yourself, too?

John spent 9 months rewriting peercoin from scratch. He did not start with a fork. He started with an empty project. So he had peercoin code up on one side, and his own project's code on the other side and he went through and rewrote each section of peercoin in his own project. This is why some of the code looks like it's been run through a reformatter. This was him rewriting it, improving on the parts that needed improvement and keeping some parts structurally similar to maintain backwards compatibility and to give other cryptocurrencies the opportunity to integrate his updated code (see coinpp - https://github.com/john-connor/coinpp). Bitch about the copyright thing as much as you want - John feels that the bitcoin code itself is stolen and any any legal action is completely unenforceable due to SN's anonymity, so why bother? John's code free and available for anyone to use, so who cares about a meaningless legal shout out at the top? He has always freely admitted that VNL was a full rewrite of peercoin.

John has put in honest, full-time hard work over at least the past 18 months on VNL and the technology surpasses existing coins. Nobody has been able to poke holes in Zerotime or any of his work, so they cling to this nonsense. Not a huge Obama fan, but this is like the crypto-version of the situation with his birth certificate. Even when it be came clear that he was going to become president, political groups still just would not let go of their stupid notion that Obama wasn't a US citizen. Obama still became president.