The anonymous John Conner has been doxxed as Ashley Julian Cain:
It is unfortunate that an apparently expert enough coder in his prime productive age of 30s has pissed away his talent because of drugs and the effect that has had on his ability to integrate with society.
I would attribute all of his failure to the use of drugs. This probably causes his social paranoia and poor choices.
I doubt you will be able to doxx @smooth. He is too astute.
Lol, I know I am really far removed from modern culture in that I didn't even realize that smooth's avatar is from the movie The Big Lebowski.
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So XVC's dev is allegedly an ex-KaZaA engineer and ex-lead developer at BitRocket (acquired by BitTorrent). No wonder XVC's blockchain and network scales so well. He is truly a master at developing p2p networks.
Ah I told you all months ago, he was likely a former developer of a Bittorrent client. I could detect that by the types of expertise he seemed to have and the nature of his designs for Zerotime and anonymity (which were both flawed).