There's a lot to think on. But the simple truth is there's much more research to be done. I understand that the word "scam" gets thrown around as easily as any other four-lettered words and emotions can lead to using the most damaging word to try and hit back, but there's no denying the fact that the industry is littered with way too many abandoned development - some due to naivety on the part of the dev, others due to cashgrab agendas. Going to have to walk down this dev's history and try and figure out why. I also understand that certain projects may have grown bigger than the original dev like ETH - there could be a whole team of devs behind the devs...
For example Lisk...they are even doing something or they're copying what Ark's devs are doing ? One example? Lisk Commander, lol even the same name
Don't forget extra field or vendor field, bridgechain, dynamic fees and more... they're already copying this or already in the copying process. I understand blockchain is a broad subject but this is obvious a copycat as they're stuck with their scam Javascript sidechain objection. There is no way beside the Ark way at this point. If anyone have even tiny brain they would see this. Lisk is a vaporware dead scam by the two morons who's not belong to the blockchain space, sound to me they're not even belong in the Crypti circle.
I mean, this Lisk guy can't even get a forked blockchain from Crypti to work on the first day.
They did create their version of the ark commander like 8 months after we released ours. This is bound to happen, there is overlap. with ark code available on github, anyone can see it and use it as long as MIT license is acknowledged. This was actually discussed between myself and the ceo of lisk last year. He was actually very excited to check how we did dynamic fees and said lisk would try and implement it or a version of it. This industry grows this way. lisk may have copied things we have done, but that just says more about us. it happens in our space, it means you are doing something correct and it is progressing the tech across the board.