You're just another Gerald Davis.
DeathAndTaxes was an awesome guy and I miss his presence in the online Bitcoin community. When I was learning about Bitcoin, I would regularly read every comment he would write, hoping to suck up some of his wisdom. Gerald is that rare gem who can understand technical topics at their full depth, who is learned in a breadth of fields beyond tech, and who is a brilliant writer and communicator.
I never had much use for D&T, but he was never quite as obnoxious as some in his class.
Stephen Gornick was top notch in my mind and extremely active and helpful back in the day. One of the few things I've seen from him in the past few years made it clear that he was disgusted with the putsch attempt.
As for prescience, nobody can beat Hearn. He saw with amazing clarity how to destroy Bitcoin from the time I started paying attention in 2011 and has been working hard to achieve this goal from that time.