Dan was not the dev of UtilityCoin.
I know who the dev is and have chatted to him on Skype a few times.
He's gone through a rough patch lately and that's what caused him to go silent on the Util thread for over a week.
The team badly needed someone to step in and manage (not develop) the project.
This is what Dan is doing.
Reasons:
- it's a Blocknet coin
- its tech is valuable to the Blocknet
- there's no benefit to anyone to allow it to just stall and die.
For further discussion, just go speak to Dan on the brand new XC thread:
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/854023.msg9501640#msg9501640