On the topic of Dan Larimer, when Dan Larimer first announced Protoshares I believe critical to his success was Charles Hoshkinson The same Charles Hoshkinson who I think was critical to the success of Ethereum. If we look at Dash we might say Amanda Johnson is critical to the success of Dash. Some people are natural introverts and when paired with a person who can handle the marketing, the Meetups, the background organizing, as Charles Hoshkinson is an expert at, then you have a recipe for success.
Charles Hoshkinson is one of the best in the industry at what he does. Amanda B Johnson is one of the best in the industry at what she does. I think Tauchain is missing something, missing someone, but I don't think Tauchain is missing researchers or the kind of stuff Ohad is doing. I think Tauchain is missing the sort of stuff Charles Hoshkinson and Amanda B Johnson can do, which is explain it to the masses, get people organized, attract developers, bring in or bridge between different projects where there is shared interests.
It's possible to build the most technically beautiful software, with the most utility, but then not be able to explain it outside academia, or not be able to explain it even to academia. I think Bitshares had the exact same complaints of people not being able to understand how it works and Dan Larimer not being able to make them understand. Steemit has been successful because it's so familiar and because everything is under the hood so people don't have to care how it works as long as they get rewards.
I would think Tauchain can go the stealth route as well. Early on it might be important to explain how it works but in general the majority of users don't need to care how it works. If something is very useful, has good marketing, good people associated with it, then generally few people care about what is under the hood, as is the case with Dash, Steemit, Ethereum, where most of the users don't know what a Patricia Tree is, or a Masternode, or Graphene.