Quote from: gjhiggins on April 18, 2021, 07:29:45 PM

Quote from: PrimeObsession on October 22, 2019, 09:53:05 AM

Quote from: BitcoinFX on December 28, 2018, 05:36:41 PM

I assert that John Allen Frey was the original developer of Gapcoin

Your assertion may has been proven wrong since j0nn9 (Jonny Frey) has been active on bitcointalk on March 23, 2018! Also he (or his script) has updated http://gapcoin.org/primegaps-length.php on September 10, 2019!

I have to agree. BitcoinFX’ assertion falls in the face of considerable evidence to the contrary to what is, after all, a very tenuous string match.

In addition to the contradictory evidence already identified by PrimeObsession and previous honest assessment :

1. The soubriquet “j0nn9” was in use in April 2014 by someone calling themselves “Jonny”, working in the crypto arena “Building MaidSafe on ArchLinux”, bylined “Gepostet vor 30th April 2014 von j0nn9”

2. The GAP donation address listed on gapcoin.org has seen activity in 2019.

3. The gapcoin.org website page for “Gapcoin’s highest found merits” carries the headline date “as of 2020 March 31”.

4. The DNS registration for gapcoin.org was renewed on 2020-04-30. The server hosting gapcoin.org is now located in Denmark, according to the DNS resolution, previously the DNS resolved to a German location.

5. The posts, code documentation and comments testify to someone for whom English is a second language. (No implications other than that, j0nn9’s English is a damn sight better than my basically non-existent German.)

6. “Jonny Frey” is not an unknown name in Germany - an example

novacula Occami

Cheers

Graham

See: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=822498.msg52839906#msg52839906

I had hoped that my assertion might bring someone in the know forward to provide us further clarification ...

clearly this has not happened to date and I will therefore redact my assertion from the website for the time being.

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In guess, "We are all Jonny Frey now", until someone logs back into the account, signs the known GAP address or responds from the associated email account.

There seems to be a pattern forming in the void.

In Numbers We Trust.

No false primes in Gapcoin!