To me, promoting castles, lambos and any other bad-taste nouveau-riche ridiculous trophy is just another way of promoting Bitcoin to the average Joe. Reminds me of the last Scorsese movie. It's inelegant I guess, but it works on many people. If Bitcoin is truly the technological and economical revolution we expect it to be, then it will make everyone richer, especially the early adopters including those convinced by a picture of Rpietila smoking cigars. If it's the proper incentive for them, then they will surely be glad in a couple of years that there was someone to produce it. Maybe it's a strategy, or maybe it's just bragging, whatever. It's useful. Also, he made intredasting TAs.
I think that I'm starting to get it..
So, he's like a character from some mexican soap opera, because it lures in poor people who actually fall for this act? It starts to make sense now. More poor people to put their life savings and kids college funds to BTC, so we could convert it to USD and buy more "castles" and lambos with it. Yeah, nothing better then to rob the poor with some good ol' deception. That's quite clever!
P.S. we should keep this under wraps though, with bitcoin trying to market itself with slogans of freedom and equality. We should try to act like we aren't a bunch of scoundrels, who enjoying rpietila's stupidity, because it lures in more unfortunate targets.
