adam back: muppet
john carreyrou: useful idiot

it's the usual pattern where the suits ride the coattails of the devs and leave them holding the bag.

blockstream may have the dubious honor of joining that club.

If you peel all the layers back it's just affinity and riding coat tails, this fraud (if it is indeed one) and pretty much every other.

Back has a halo and is somewhat of a dupe, so he will be milked by bad guys until the cow dies.

that's the usual pattern anyway.

too early to say if it plays that way for blockstream. but many red flags