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.
You'll excuse me if I find your historically infamous/hilarious opinions on cryptography and academia less than persuasive.
Almost everything on and connecting to your computer, trusted or otherwise, was developed by academics (albeit in conjunction with the military-industrial complex).
Like Shadowcash, Dash will find out why "good crypto" is peer reviewed by eggheads in ivory towers, not slapped together by some ginger in his garden shed and marketed like snake oil.