You're joking right? How can you get "Dan was a dev who was looking at Hal's code" from something as clear as "Dan is Hal dev"? That sure is a lot of blanks to fill in there.
It's
Prom trying to promote his coin by being sloppy at best and deceptive at worst. Having Dan Metcalf connected in any way to a coin was known to boost popularity.
I'd go with sloppy. But, we must remember this was a casual conversation and we have very little context, so we are having to "guess" what was precisely meant.
The thing is there is no other reason to think that Dan Metcalf was the HAL developer and a lot of evidence against this.
It's absurd really.
Also, it's clear that Dan and Prom works together (Dan said so himself at the end of the interview). I'm very curious how you feel about that.
Of course if Prom asked Dan to look at the code then they must have done some "work" together.
But again, you could help here by being clear about what you mean by "works together", as that could mean many things.
The shame is that Dan actually provided a way where other coins besides his own coin might be able to work together and prosper.
Most of the time we see people just wanting one coin to prosper and other coins to die.
Dan's idea is that unless we band together and stop fighting IBM might steal our thunder,
IBM is about to launch its own Blockchain project and when they do, all of these altchains will have no chance to compete unless people unite together
We should stop fighting and work together.