I can also defend @crimsonclad. She's not taking a cent for herself, and those funds were just bridged through her to pay people. I believe she even loses some money dealing with her accountant/taxes because of that.

I attended 3 conferences funded by @valueplan. Great work has been done, and I'm aware that many meetings have been held with very big names out there.
Most of these ultimately don't materialize because common ground is not found (e.g. no EVM compatibility, they just want to extract funds from our DAO, their costs are huge, etc etc).

I must admit that we haven't seen huge results so far where it matters the most: bridging liquidity. It's not an easy task since Hive has no CEO, and regulations are not in our favor.

I think it would still be a good idea to do some name-dropping just to let the community know the size of the engaged projects and that a lot of work is being done behind the scenes.
But blogging all these updates takes time, and @crimsonclad's pro-bono time has a limit. My understanding is that she's also been offline for a month or two now due to family issues (see inactivity on https://x.com/@hiveblocks).

@simplegame can confirm the above, too, regarding the conferences.