From this, we can glean two lessons: 1) There's not a lot of weight to put on such criticism because for any success there are also critics. Critics are wrong

From this, we can glean two lessons: 1) There's not a lot of weight to put on such criticism because for any success there are also critics. Critics are wrong until and unless they're right. As others have noted, in this case, he wasn't convicted for the thing these critics were claiming he was doing. 2) ... But, it's Bitcoin. Any critic claiming anything Bitcoin related is probably tied to a scam is statistically likely to be correct. ;)