"He (Dan) did not endear himself to many that were in the crowd. This is because many of the people in attendance had made their fortunes mining cryptocurrency using the Proof of Work (POW) model."

Being part of the early BitShares community really made me feel like a hipster of hipsters. I was an early crypto adopter and among my fellow uber early adopters I was a DPOS evangelist!

In November this year, it felt pretty good to have people I knew realize I wasn't batshit insane when it came to my 6 and half years of Bitcoin posts.

And now, with the attention EOS is bringing to DPOS, it feels good again to have the crypto community realize I wasn't batshit insane to be talking about DPOS for 4 years!

Here's to all those that have defended DPOS since the early BitShares days!