A new blockchain of a creator who announces the project with the wrong encryption algorithm?
It was nothing more than a spelling mistake by the person who created the thread. I don't see anything terrible in this.
Why forking the Bitcoin chain if you gonna change the algorithm/consensus rules? Why not simply create a new chain?
This decision was made by our developers.
Atomic trades, what is advertised here as the ultimate revolutionary change, also isn't something new.
You are right - similar solutions are already on the market. We hope that we will be able to favorably differ from others precisely in how all these solutions will be implemented and will work together in BTCU coin.