These coin reviews he does? are we saying he pushes the code out to freelancers to review?
Can someone really not verify yes or no the guy can code or not?
Well if you look at the source (what little there is) (actually it's non functional) https://github.com/atcsecure/xbridge All the commits are made by someone else besides Dan. His name is Christian Howe.
Now if you search for that name on this site, it brings you here. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.7762670
Which states and I quote
He's a C++ expert and is responsible for many of the building blocks of XC's ground-breaking technology."
So it looks like in fact, Dan is not a code developer. Included is a picture of the person who is the main developer of this project worth 2500 BTC.
the coder talking on the Blocknet ANN topic synchrist said he had been coding for 35 years eh