If he was a Dan alt he attacked Dan when Dan spoke up against this type of behavior. Dan did try to speak up against this. He left the company and made EOS not long after that. I think Dan does believe his stated goals and he views steemit as a failed experiment that he learned some things from. Yet I notice they never spun up a social media platform to fix the problems on EOS.

Dan has big ideas, and they are usually pretty cutting edge. As such they also have cutting edge problems that are hard to predict.

As to smooth being Ned. I don't think so. I paid attention and those early miners didn't seem to be the same people. On steemit berniesanders and smooth were definitely big actors but did seem to be different people. I don't know who bernie is here. That is probably a good thing (maybe altleft?). I think I got along the least with him out of all of the whales on steemit.