Let's get this straight.
Satoshi works on bitcoin code since sometime in 2007 and releases bitcoin live in early 2009. It takes a to mid 2010 for coins to be worth more than electricity cost to generate them. Almost 6 years into bitcoin, bitcoin has a market cap of $5 billion. The bitcoin code is validated and updated by a decentralized community.
Josh / GAW creates a 'Hashcoin' in the last few months, it solves no major problem but to generate 'value' for the people creating hashcoins. The code is unknown. The whitepaper is being changed almost daily. Hashcoin is suppose to go live in a few weeks with 'major companies' accepting it and giving Hashcoin a market cap of a few hundred million to few billion.