Just a guess, but I suspect he's using it to help fund his "next big thing" he just told us about. Is that so hard to understand?

@dan said some things when he resigned like I won't be posting here anymore, that he has recanted or changed his mind about. In a perfect world we could count on every word as gold and immutable, but thank goodness it's not a "perfect" world, 'cuz we couldn't be in it if it was.

Nobody's perfect. We all say things from time to time we regret, that's just one of life's challenges to overcome. Don't hold dan back from creating the next great innovation by trying to impose expectations on what he should do with what he has earned.