Who are you? when you were talking with John. proofs?
JC never spoke with me - infact generally got ignored. I spoke with xCore on IRC and he submitted patches on my behalf as he was only person JC would talk to. I don't have proof of relevance but here's a post in originally Vanillacoin thread
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=977245.msg11954482#msg11954482 and
I am a UK-based software developer. I'm also a co-founder of the Smart Investment Fund ICO that launched in September 2017 (we have our own proprietary AI-based trading algorithms and trade crypto and forex). My LinkedIn is
https://www.linkedin.com/in/guytp/ and if you really care you can watch my YouTube channel at
https://youtube.com/GuyRobotTVare zapple have API? so we could update on coinmarketcap and coingecko (exchange list)