I care about the blockchain, but frankly I could care less about that stake.

He can use it or not in my opinion.

Here is a post of the conversation during and through the Mining...

https://steemit.com/steem/@joseph/the-history-of-steem-steemit-launch-in-the-words-of-dan-larimer-from-the-early-launch-days

While they do say they will use the tokens to build at one point, they also state they do not even promise to support the project at all. In fact... they say many things.

(self upvoted after the dvs)