It looks like a highly planned move to me. First move to slack because of "trolls" just right on the heels of the SEC starting to look into people and right after dumping the XC premine.
Keep the blocknet open in hopes they can pump it enough to dump into it then move to slack.
The more value these things lose they better it is. SEC is much less likely to investigate something doing $400 a day than something doing $40,000 a day in volume.
Get volume low, quietly retire to slack. Never kill it - just never spend time with it. Pretend like you are until everyone has lost interest due to low volume etc
Dan can't legally be paying himself for any of this "work" with his tax liens. However, he can funnel funds thru his LLC somehow?