User blog comment:DancePowderer/No Room at the Inn, Deductive Reasoning/@comment-25926617-20150613080933

Technically if saying someone is alive in One Piece that was not shown in extremely recent chapters than it is speculation cuz they could've died. For instance Ivankov's hideout could have been found and he got killed by an admiral or something. People who say someone is dead without it being stated is actually speculation but it is also speculation to say that person is alive so either way you lose.