And Phinnaeus is carrying on like a man with a 20" iron bar through his head.

Stop it. James is just the next little rip-off artiste to arrive in bitcoin land. The sad thing is that he represented something that might have actually served the bitcoin economy in a positive way, but he fucked it up. Let's frace it, the only real reason for bitcoin is to score drugs on Silk Road, anything beyond that is just some long con that hasn't been played out fully.