This is not accurate. Unless you enjoy the drama, you can feel free to add more FUD. Not long time ago it was Lon who lead NEM all the way to billions in market cap. Away from the tiny NEM foundation funding issues: The reality is that today the NEM ecosystem is stronger than ever with very solid dev, community and catapult innovations. It is catapult innovations that open the door for projects such as ProximaX. Not only we "NEM community" should support ProximaX but we should support all similar projects. I do not see any value in attacking any current or previous NEM leads/devs/projects.
It is pure ignorance to call ProximaX a sh** coin. Go read their recently published technical papers solving very complex problems that will benefit NEM directly or indirectly sooner or later.
There's zero proof or suspicion he's stolen anything but his conduct has not been exactly impressive at times. However it is his right. Almost everyone in this space is totally self serving.
I've observed his behaviour on the Telegram channels for ages. If he's called out on anything all he does is attack.
I remember reading he was instrumental in making NIS closed source and that's probably been the main cause of NEM's never ending invisibility. As soon as he had an open source sandbox to play with then off he went.
ProximaX is a competitor as well as a collaborator in certain areas. It does show how NEM has been throwing away time and effort. ProximaX has people who deliver and then they go out and hustle with the results. The NEM core developers certainly deliver and then not a great deal happens afterwards. That looks like the direction the new leadership is heading towards and that's how it should've been all along.