Evan is crazy to think he can do distributed storage better than STORJ, SIA, and MAIDSAFE
I doubt it.
Distributed storage is about to become 10 a penny. Once Google did it, you'll find that it comes free with Cornflakes packets. What makes Dash unique is that it is perfect money. Better than bitcoin (because more fungible), better than Monero (because not blurry) and better than Ether (which isn't a currency).
Shen may decide to de-anon Dash's entire blockchain like he just did to Shadowcash
He may, but he can't so he won't.
With no cryptanalytic peer review to back up Dash's claims of privacy with actual mathematical proof, bagholders are getting nervous.
Most everyday users of technology would not trust an academic as far as they could throw them. When it comes to money, they trust what they can see, not what they can't see.