I have read the story several times and I don't see the connection with bitcoin. It is just some lazy millionaire and an even dumber journalist.
I have never understood these people who always have some loose millions to throw at silly business 'opportunities and deals'.
Common sense can easily tell you, you are about to be fucked if it took 40 years to make 3m while a layabout is telling you he can double the amount in month!!
Replacing god with knowledge has really screwed the minds of poor nyeuthis all over the world - we have become so vulnerable to all sort of rubbish especially where a foreigner is involved!
The whites and richer suckers are also no different as ponzi and Madoff showed us.