I had the strange luck to have known Richard Hart before he became a crypto huckster. In the year or so leading up to his transition from random spammer nobody

I had the strange luck to have known Richard Hart before he became a crypto huckster. In the year or so leading up to his transition from random spammer nobody to wealthy scamming random nobody, he was pretty aggressively critical and cynical about all things cryptocurrency, especially about the abject gullibility and willful ignorance of the people who sign on to all of the ideological nonsense about the blockchain and decentralization, and people who take all of the obviously manipulated metrics about market cap, volume and activity at face value. He could have been your very standard hn cryptocritic, going by his stated positions. I'm not sure exactly what happened to him in the year or so between when I last encountered him in certain telegram channels, but I get the sense that his reaction to the shit show of cryptocurrency was rather than settling for being another Cassandra with a lot to say and no money to say it about the dangers of the crypto Ponzi scene, he went full Mirror Universe and decided to simply take advantage of the people who he had contempt for, as openly and boldly and shamelessly and transparently as he possibly could. This way he wouldn't have to feel as guilty about fooling them. Like a Stephen Colbert or Sacha Baron Cohen but with more meanness and less talent, and without any remorse for bilking the naive minnows snagged in the bycatch of his cryptobro trawling net.