The clowns you refer too are the ones actually working on Bitcoin development which make them more relevant than Peter could ever hope to be.

Unfortunately, Peter's piss poor research will never make it past peer-review seeing how his original "Spherical cows exist without block size limit" was dismantled by Greg Maxwell.

I guess having one of your pal's credentials next to some mildly important (effectively irrelevant) academic circlejerk makes your crew feel warm and fuzzy.

Rational observers couldn't give less of a fuck