To answer to the second part of your question, I’m powering down less than I grow on average ever week. Any other relevant reasoning doesn’t fall in the transparency required for blockchain. :)

As for ned, I’m guessing that he is powering down because his agreement with the board allows him to power down x every x. But that’s merely a wild guess, one which IMHO is a fully normal process though. Founders (and also C-level execs) usually have vesting equity every so often, which they then are allowed to sell.

Addendum: I didn’t say the future is bright. I said we all have have those doubts, more often than we would like to admit. But I do believe in SMTs. Whether that means I also need to be a HODLer... maybe those concept need not be mutually exclusive. But I agree, perception matters. Yet my life is not on the blockchain.