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 examplenovacula OccamiCheers
Graham
There are other Frey in USA that are more likely to be him.