Aside from the part that EVERYONE here loves to hate rpietila, we ought to give the man some credit. He's the one that believes in bitcoin more than any of us trolls in here and has had the gut (and money) to support it. Chances are that he'll be around after the next 2-3 bubbles of bitcoin and he's gonna probably make it to the news several times in the future regarding virtual currencies.
Question is: who of us is willing to be here after $5000 mark? think before you spit. Kthnxbye.
I don't hate him. Never even met the guy.
I do however consider his habit of presenting Bitcoin as a
get-rich-quick scheme to be toxic. All the fancy log charts and extrapolations can't change that this is his selling point.
He's certainly not the only one who's doing it, but he's one of the more prominent ones, so he receives a certain (disproportional perhaps) amount of flak from those who feel that kind of salesmanship is a disservice to Bitcoin.