And BTW: I'm no programmer AT ALL, and its not so difficult to understand the basics of how crypto works, and how to make a Scrypt clone... It just takes a little bit of reading, the code is not so difficult to understand even if you are a profane - just stop writing nonsense AND READ. Can you make that exercise? Stop posting for a week, slap your hand when you have the temptation of writing a post, AND JUST READ AND LEARN.
This. While a background in software development helps there is a lot of technical information which is not in code form. One can spend a week just looking over the wiki to learn "how" Bitcoin (and thus any clone of it) works. The ability to improve knowledge is there. It is useful for project managers for example to understand at a high level how the systems they are managing work even if they aren't writing any code.
Some examples would be that vlad believes:
a) that a blockchain which has a reward of 100% until 7 years at which point it drops to zero is viable.
b) that making the outcome of the block random changes the EV and thus favors small miners over large ones.
c) that random block rewards are impossible with proof of stake.
d) that an entity with 51% can change the rules of a protocol (i.e. a government making Bitcoin trackable and transparent).
None of these are programming concepts they are high level concepts (and they are all false BTW). Not everyone needs to be a software developer but I would imagine (or hope) that the Winklevoss twins learned more about how Bitcoin works before buying a large stake and/or trying to launch an ETF. Reading through the public doc it would appear they either personally understand or have hire experts who understand at least most concepts related to cryptocurrency.
That's very spot on. Vlad, just stop a little and read the above points, you will realize that your time will be much better used in reading and learning, you are lacking a lot of basic knowledge for even having the absurd idea of launching "another crapcoin".