He has/had a Youtube channel that I think I subscribed to a while back before I gave up Google.  He's definitely a miner and posts in Meta now and then.  I don't visit the mining section often because my input would be shitposting compared to the gold that's there and would probably be deleted anyway, but he was pretty active there last I checked.

Franky1 gets more shit than he deserves IMO.  I get that he has very loud, contrary opinions on matters but I've never viewed his posts as trolling nor him as a troll.  Then again, some of the stuff he writes about is way above my head so it's hard for me to tell what the truth is sometimes (he's obviously knowledgeable about the technical aspects of bitcoin, whereas I'm not).

Good thread, OP.  There are a lot of under-recognized members here and old-timers who've stuck around for years that deserve some recognition.  Too bad Vod isn't here anymore.  He did a lot of good for the forum for a long time.