[2] Before becoming a full-time blogger, Jones worked on FPGA boards for the EDA company Altium.

[7] Jones is also the founder and co-host of The Amp Hour,[4] an electronics engineering radio show and podcast.

Batteroo, the company behind the product, disputed the arguments put forth by Jones and others, and published a number of demonstration videos in response.

[10] Other bloggers with related videos experienced similar activity from addresses in Vietnam.

The bloggers involved have suspected that either a click farm in Vietnam was engaged to harm the reputations of those attacking the claims about the product, or that a single computer with many fake or stolen YouTube accounts utilized proxied IP addresses to cover its tracks.