Think it will be a major cop out.
He is an early Bitcoin investor. Probably has a few million USD to his name in BTC.
What does that have to do with killing coins?
lol u know how much dumping $100K on AWS gets u in hash for a cpu coin?
plus some people say he has tens of millions
If his attack is purely hash rate based then it will be like a storm. It comes and goes and the longer he holds his "fork" of monero in place the more money it will cost him.
It would not surprise me one bit if he was to back out on this so called attack like he did when he claimed he was going to fork/kill Litecoin in 2012 and then didnt.