For the last time XCASH does 'not' use IRC.. this code was forked from sdc and the IRC part is legacy unused code. Your detective work has led you to the irc channel for another coin. It took me exactly 2mins to work that out.
Such expert!
is that a nice way of saying its a copy/pasta shitclone?
No its a nice way of saying the dev forked SDC as a base (just like sdc forked bc) before making many mods including major ones to fix issues including wallet stability/deadlock, removing irc for peer lookup as it sucks, removing encrypted messaging because 1. It didn't fit his vision for XCASH and 2. He felt it was buggy etc. He has taken the good work done by ryno and applied it in a way that actually provides stealth anon from the genesis block. Having spoken to him yesterday he is reworking parts of the stealth code to make it better.
This is far from a S&R.