He is as smart as he can be annoying. Very. His Bitcoin issue is his own. The cognitive dissonance is strong in this one.

Core30 BTC's block size will one day let him win one part of the argument, because it will be so expensive to send coins on that chain one day that it'd be wiser to just send gold and bear the roughness Blake2b solves this, but it became non-mainstream, which can make him even happier