Not nearly as entertaining as recent international affairs that may be driving more interest to the space.
http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-price-trading-highest-level-...
In the other hand private "blockchains" are waiting for a killer and real implementation.
If he wasn't doing anything illegal, then it sounds like he probably just knows the system really well, which is probably a good person to have around when you're working out at the edges, which bitcoin is.
He was fired from Barclays because he got his hand caught in the cookie jar - several times [1] (money laundering, management bonuses, tax avoidance, conflicts of interest, rate fixing, market manipulation on electricity and gold)
