Lol, yeah, COF hasn't worked out as expected but he would've loaded up Bitcoin and Ether. At least 6 figures when ETH was trading at circa USD$50. He's probably up half a million right now in the space of a few weeks.
...as a PR stuff. When he is mangling with HF guys he can say he is a published author. Of course he didn't write it for ET's sake, although the writing sure sounds like an extended post. I don't think he ever hoped he would sell tons of books. Self publishing is very hard and most of the time it is not even breaking even...
Marketsurfer is no longer a vendor or a participant, per his own request to me on May 15th. I'm going to close this journal to new replies since he's obviously out of the picture at this point.