The author of that evidently has me confused with a Mark Miller who had a convo with Hal back in 2001.
That was not me.
The guy's entire premise seems totally insane, seems like he is a real fruitcake.
Also Tonal Bitcoin was a Luke Jr. thing, simple a cosmoetic front end, a version of bitcoin client that displayed values in the tonal number system (base 16) instead of decimal.
It was not a separate coin at all, just another way of display normal btcoins, just like you can display them as microbitcoins or whatever.
None if this changes the fact that DeVCoin is awesome, of course. We don't need fruitcake theories to assert that.

-MarkM-
Just pay up when the time comes. Thanks!