it's not about bernie only, there are many whales who don't like any SMT related project coming when there's no real SMT yet. Appics and Onestellar are also critisized heavily. I think this is the one reason Vice dropped their SMT plan because they can't wait till the launch of SMT and whales here won't easily accept any ICO on SMT related projects as early when theirs no SMT or it's launch date.