Great post!

I have a few things to add. First both dan and ned have denied to me (Hive account@steemed) directly that they are freedom. Dan has not denied knowing who freedom is. Ned has denied knowing who freedom is, and has said he has asked all developers at steemit whether they are freedom. It is hard to know if either dan or ned is being truthful.

Second, it is clear from when the accounts were first created by mining (which is how we created accounts in the first days of steem) that freedom is a deep insider.

Third, if you match up voting habits of dan and freedom you will see a meganormous boner for Hive account@nextgencrypto / Hive account@berniesanders (tagged for his entertainment). It is well known that nextgencrypto and berniesanders are the same individual and for some reason dan and freedom HATE him. This is not proof, but is interesting, if you realize that freedom/pumpkin/etc have been somewhat sparing with their downvotes.

Fourth, and probably most importantly you should do some vote timing analysis and see if there are correlations with votes. When was dan voting, when was xeroc voting, and when was pumpkin/freedom/etc voting. I think you will find some interesting, though perhaps not conclusive correlations.