he wasn't financially engineering then, at least not to the insane level right now. They were still mostly/roughly a stagnant (but profitable) intelligence company with some quirky bitcoin stacking on the side. 

He's publicly and balance sheet wise better off now than then, so yeah you're probs right. But back then he was a hero, a rockstar; now he's drifting into pariah

denlillaapan

I don't have a great memory, and I had no skin in the game then or now, but weren't all these articles also appearing, albeit less often, during the FTX shitshow about Saylor and MSTR? He weathered the storm then, and I wouldn't be shocked if the slippery old con man figures a way to hang on to his stack now too.