So it will delight many in the blockchain industry to learn that Kasparov, easily one of the smartest people alive, is now a champion of cryptocurrency. Deligh

So it will delight many in the blockchain industry to learn that Kasparov, easily one of the smartest people alive, is now a champion of cryptocurrency. Delight it shall. But it doesn't change the fact the fact that, tragically, history is full of instances of brilliant and (like Kasparov) commendably ethical and principled people who ... nonetheless become caught up in all kinds of foolishness and nonsense. Like a certain Sir Isaac Newton for example, who couldn't help but get sucked into this (in its day, equally irresistible) vortex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sea_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sea_Company