I think you're missing the point
What would happen to the market cap of BitShares if the algos started picking up news stories of how the lead dev of B.T.S. just got hired by V.I.S.A?
Indeed what would happen? I can just as easily see such a turn of event causing BitShares to tank and die a quick death. Bachman's post is a totally rediculous idea. There would obviously be strings attached to the position, vesting for bonus, owning rights to all inventions, NDAs ... I know it was in jest but he just blew his avatar fascade.
I thought it could have some benefits, but only if done strategically and through negotiations...
I mean think about it. BTS is pretty much already proven...and it isn't like Counterparty where the devs leaving meant counterparty was dead on arrival (because it was tied to alllll the negatives of bitcoin). Bitshares (and graphene) is something awesome.
Hm...instead of hiring Dan, why don't we show them the codebase?
BTS hasn't been proven yet .
It used a private C++ lib called FC which nobody use except a few people .
It hasn't gone through security auditing on the code .
It even needs manual reboot on Yunbi from time to time these days (They said it had been frequent since 2.0 ) . Don't know if it's their deal or BitShares' .
Its network has halted several times these few months .
2 Days ago , when the price surged , BitShares was unable to do transfer (many people have complaint about that) . And it magically solved in the next day without releasing a new version .
In terms of industrial use , BitShares is far from it .