This was
his last message(december) on this thread..
I guess the grand masters idea was the pump & dump scheme using Bitcoin Private.
connivance to fraud and scam it is. Rhett's greed.
They've clearly stated, that ZCL will be left in it's current state.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinPrivate/comments/809o21/we_are_the_bitcoin_private_team_ama_at_7_pm_est/BitcoinPrivate 9 points 7 days ago
We are going to continue keeping our ZCL network support (nodes, explorers, etc) alive until further notice. Otherwise, we have no development plans for ZCL. It is a community coin and the community can make pull requests if they want to continue development. All existing Zclassic software will remain on the z-classic GitHub repo.
How is that relevant ? That was a week ago.. in the middle of the pump.. and on the btcp subreddit.