It's the time traveling and 'hacking skills' comments made by Vlad2Vlad coupled with the fact he appears to have put a fair amount of btc into I0C a number of years ago which leads me to believe this is indeed a pump and dump. If there really is something worth while happening to this coin, much of the information surrounding it at this time is detrimental and hard to understand or even believable.

Much of the information written about I0C and the disccusion in this thread appears to fit this (I0C talk) being a conspiracy theory. see https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-conspiracy-theory-director/