The fud was real when JBG had the lead. The best thing that happened to the project is that he left and is gonna start wisp, which they say will be a fork from spectrecoin. Have no faith is wisp, it will be a shit project.
Spectrecoin is however going good now that he's out. They have a new team that are transparent(no more anonymous devs), which are making progress. Have a code audit being done. New developments are looking good, got trello set up so one can follow the progress. New website and whitepaper being done. No big promises that is impossible to verify anymore(like jbg had). So alot of things happening and spectrecoin is back on track. If I get any wisp from the fork, I'll get rid of those asap.