Just a guess, but: if you come up with a successfull algorithm, you still need to have money that can be invested in order to use the algorithm. So maybe someon

Just a guess, but: if you come up with a successfull algorithm, you still need to have money that can be invested in order to use the algorithm. So maybe someone else with 100x more money to invest would pay more for the algorithm than you could earn from it in a lifetime.