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He says things that feel good and sound correct, but his anti-bitcoin bs quickly snaps any bitcoiner out of any trance and validates that he is not for the people. - He doesn't and hasn't ever listened to his audience. - He never grows, he is just selling a story. - His persona is "the normal lad with a conscience who has seen the other side and came back to share his experiences". - He is arrogant. - He is pining for influence and it's associated power. - He thinks he is better than you. - He is here to teach, not to learn. His story is exotic and compelling, but he himself is a closed book. Being a finance bro on your side sounds too good to be true, especially when it is clear that people are starved of financial education and the financial system is complicated, but he does not diverge from the script. That's how we know he is just a puppet on strings. To be clear, he doesn't have to like Bitcoin, but when you speak about it, you will get feedback. If you don't grow even a little, your hand is shown.

Well said. He has indeed shown his hand a number of times now and that undermines his credibility. He smelt fishy from the start with his outlandish and unknowable claim of being the best trader in the world (or even within Citibank). The best traders make many tens of millions in a year and they are rarely juniors on trading desks with tight risk limits.