He is just a young man joking around.

And their group seems to have some leanings towards thinking they would be better managers of the future than their current elite, something like a theory that someone has to be the rich so it might as well be them instead of dinosaurs Buffet, Soros, Kissinger, Rockefeller, etc. I am probably not fully capturing their psychology (and I don't even know if it is a cohesive grouping nor who the members are) but none of us are perfect.

Don't all men want to be a king of their home life at least?

I guess I despise politics so much that I don't pay attention to whether someone would be a good leader or not, because I believe in leaderless organization as much as possible.

I do however recognize that a software project such as Bitcoin or altcoin requires a Benevolent Dictator otherwise chaos, bickering and nothing gets done. Gavin may be the BDFL in the Bitcoin system, and we see he meets with the CIA, Mt.Gox, etc..

Any way I don't won't to win political points. I want to win insurmountable algorithmic and feature points.

Add: putting it on national TV seems to imply Risto is still hated by the TPTB or at least some powerful group in Finland? So perhaps that paints the understanding that he is on our side of the battle ahead.