Hiro helping out Darkcoin can only be a good thing. He knows his stuff.
Not trying to bash, but what did he do other than hirocoin? As I understood it... that coin had no innovation on top of x11 which he got from DRK. I am wrong?
Also, I think the name issue will go away eventually. As the marketcap gets larger and larger people will stop caring.
Also you should have explained to the guy that banning a certain crypto will be very difficult and if they do the first coin they will go after is obviously the one that has been used for the most illegal activity and would also have the biggest impact if brought down.. BITCOIN.
Hiro knows the protocol really, really well and can troubleshoot it. He built Hirocoin x11 on a very fundamental base from scratch off the litecoin base. Not many people can do that. He didn't innovate because he wanted to build a strong, reliable coin. I think if he wanted to, he could've modified the protocol to do anything he wanted.
Yes, I agree the name issue will go away eventually. But it was an avoidable problem in my view.