That is actually criminal and it does not sound like Mr. Spread at all
I'm unsure about whether the term “criminal” can be accurate in the context of a commons which is under no specific legal jurisdiction but I agree with your point about it not sounding like Mr. Spread at all.
Mr. Spread comes over as rather a private person with well-considered views (as do all the programmers of his calibre with whom I am acquainted) but you can catch glimpses of his personality here'n'there and it does tend to back up your point - e.g. Mr. Spread's innovative take on the value bound to pszTimestamp, a variable described thusly in a 2013 bct thread:
The phrase is hashed into the block. It is meant to be a proof of date. It is meant to be some fact that would not have been known before the date in it, to prove the block was made on of after that date.
A typical example is provided in an earlier post to that thread: “
NY Times 05/Oct/2011 Steve Jobs, Apple’s Visionary, Dies at 56”. earlz's code reviews usually include an assessment of how well the coin's pszTimestamp value serves the proof-of-date purpose, f'rinstance
his review of darktoken is annotated:
Problems: * MODERATE: genesis seed is not a news event.
The value of Spreadcoin's pszTimestamp: “Bitcoin block #312971 ~1cbec6ee63d173ea4b2c645cdb162aae6637170ecbb43c15”
Which is rather elegant when you think about it.
My take on it is: if you want to get to know Mr. Spread better, read his code.
Cheers
Graham
) on you being in contact with Mr.SPR or would have been one of the few that would have been kept in the loop. 
