Something tells me he wouldn't have been successful in todays cryptocurrency market as it's easy to verify that protocols works the way they are advertised, if

Something tells me he wouldn't have been successful in todays cryptocurrency market as it's easy to verify that protocols works the way they are advertised, if you compared to the blackbox investment firms operate in. Madoff-copycat: "Hey, look at this thing, it has 60% APY!" Before: "Wow, I have no way to verify it's actually true, let's do it!" Now: "Show me the contract/code that enables this, and if I can verify it, let's do it! Otherwise fuck off"