luckily Monero doesn't have a nullc yet.
Are you kidding? A crypto rock star like gmaxwell would be a stellar addition to XMR's core team. The price would double in an hour.
I'd rather he stay with Bitcoin to help balance/cancel out nefarious MBA/VC/frat boy influence, but if the Gavinistas run him off...
I'm in the camp that beeves it's the square root of the size of the network that give money its value, don't get me wrong I love the idea of A crypto rock star working in this field, I just can't bring my self to believe they are the reason people invest new economic systems.