Nikola Tesla because he was getting free energy from the ether.

I recently saw this quote from John Adams and thought that he might have been a bitcoiner:

"All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from a want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation."

John Adams

Letter to Thomas Jefferson (23 August 1787)