He has been a bitcoin bear for a long time. Like many people that have been anti bitcoin, they keep jumping on new reasons why it’s a scam or not going to work when their old reasons become irrelevant.

It is probably very painful following it closely and not investing from the around $10 prices or so. Makes you mentally even more tied to the non-investment, and makes you invent better arguments on why you didn't invest.

Regardless of your feelings towards patio11 and his views on Bitcoin, this is not appropriate. Speculating about his emotions like this is a misdirection that dances around de-legitimizing his views without a real rebuttal to his point. Moreover, he’s on this forum, so you don’t need to talk about him like this, as if he isn’t here.

If you have a substantive rebuttal to make, do that instead of engaging in passive aggressive character assassination. What you’re doing is probably satisfying, but it doesn’t convince anyone else that you’re correct who doesn’t already side with you, and it’s insidious in that it steers the course of the conversation away from an individual’s point and onto their identity.