I'm not in the very least surprised. He'd waited long enough and as a smart person must have seen the future is about to be decentralised and how cryptocurrency is the next revolution. It's either he jumps on the train or be left stranded. He would certainly want to jump on it but like the leaders in Animal Farm, he'd be more equal than others and would hate to relinquish control of whatever cryptocurrency he'd create, in other words it'd be another centralised coin