Not crazy.

1 comes at no surprise and he made no attempts to hide it.

2 is interesting when you say government and monetary policy is going through it's own ico phase. Kind of seems like it. Following that analogy though, they are the ico founders not the ico buyers. While most shitcoiners in that era lost their shirts on icos and eventually some came around to bitcoin, the ico creators almost all made it out mega rich and are either in jail or still perpetuating the shitcoin casino to the masses.