I don’t see him that way, though he did predict how popular altcoins would become.
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He told me in front of hundreds of people when I was doing a room about altcoins having no real utility that altcoins can have utility when I asked him for an example he said filecoin.
That turned out to be a Ponzi by the way.
So depressing to hear that. His work was instrumental in helping me understand bitcoin in the beginning and for creating many other bitcoiners.