Shiny_Flakes: The Teenage Drug Lord

As for the documentary, it was very well made and engaging. I didn't plan on watching it, but I was too late pushing cancel after the preview and found myself watching the lot!

As for Max, I found him irritating. I've looked through the other reviews and people generally see him as some sort of hero, but working in mental health, I just found him to be a gloating narcissist.

Just out of interest, the amount of bitcoin he made - 15,188 - if he kept all that and transferred it to US dollars in April 2021 he would've had $987,000,000, a few thousand short of a billion dollars. Where did all that go?

It's crazy to think what this person did but also for so long without being found out. Very interesting documentary.

I found it pretty entertaining and I couldn't resist chuckling because law enforcement was so annoyed about Max and at certain points even personally offended about his lack of remorse. Their demeanor and facial expressions were the best!

Very well done documentary with good interpreters/voice actors. I found Max really likeable and not arrogant as the cops seemed to want to characterize him. Yes drugs are illegal and dangerous, dont do drugs. But as one person said, drug companies have been doing the same thing in tall buildings for years. This kid had talent and motivation and saw what others didnt.

I found the police to be somewhat arrogant, save maybe one, because of their almost refusal to acknowledge how smart he was and how bad luck played into his getting caught.

Now if after release he starts up again, welll that's a different discussion.

It's definitely and interesting subject, but Max comes off extremely arrogant and without even the tiniest amount of regret. He displays sociopathic tendencies and thus the ending didn't really surprise me. He clearly sees nothing wrong in his actions. I'm not really surprised, as he is probably the product of his upbringing. It says something about his parents when the investigators said Max's mom didn't enter his sons room for over a year. That is absolutely not normal.