Whilst I do not subscribe to his love of Monero I would not hold the above against him or let it cloud my judgement of him! 
Heck, if you're a fan of One-Flew-Over-The-Cuckoo's-Nest type of stories, you could bang out one about a nutter plopped in an insane asylum who buys $1,000' worth of Bitcoin in 2010 and winds up owning the institution after buying it on the sly...