> developer stated that took him about 2 hours, including the logo, throw together. its literally nothing more than a copy-paste of another coin (itself a 95% identical copy of bitcoin) with a few irrelevant cosmetic changes and a deliberately absurd emission rate setting.

ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, and what do you think 10 pounds note is? Take 5 pounds note, throw some logo around, add Queen face and voila