It is a little curious when someone who has their work and, presumably, money tied in with ASICs, wants to create a fork where ASICs are pretty much irrelevant. I have to admit I'm a little intrigued. But then again, what's the point in trying to guess peoples' motivations anyway when you'll probably never find out for certain? Once it's out in the open, what the creator envisaged could well go out the window and morph into something else entirely.
Whatever they want to do and for whatever reason they want to do it, they're free to. Everyone else is free to either tag along for the ride or don't. Each to their own.
Plus some people on this forum seem to go way overboard with the accusations and shit-stirring, assuming everything has to be some sort of attack on the network, so it's not like they need any encouragement to speculate about motives, as if they weren't already. Most threads on the theme of "motive" tend to descend into baseless mudslinging before too long around here. Somehow I'm not optimistic about this one, heh.
Bitcoin Gold was founded by Nick Szabo, or so I thought.
Not quite, that was "
Bit gold", not to be confused with
BitGold or Bitcoin Gold.