He's gotta be ex sec or prosecutor. He's got many many connections and reports sec news. Homero ganza is extra fucked. Coinfire basically confirmed my suspicions earlier. This is good though, even more credible. I just hope coinbrief discloses any xpy holdings if needed .
I can't speak for any of our authors, as I don't ask them about their personal finances (unless they wanted to write about some specific, random currency...then I would ask).
However, as the author of this article, I can confidently state that I have never owned any XPY at all. I did, last year, purchase a few Scrypt ASICs from GAW. That is actually why I became interested in the company, as the machines were shipped to me quickly, worked great, were efficient, and were cheap for their hashing rate.
Once they announced the Hashlets, I lost interest. I went through the checkout process on 1 Hashlet, to see how that was setup, but didn't complete the purchase. Since that time, I've just been observing.