I've been following this story because he's a local boy, I actually met him very briefly once, back when he was just a kid.

The article is skimming over some of the darker sides of his side of the story - like how allegedly his code and conversations are generally peppered with racist rants (I haven't seen any examples of such). The boy seems like a horrible case of internet poisoning - like, a brilliant mathematician child completely mangled in the head by 4chan/gamer discourse.

One part of his first heist that isn't mentioned often is that Indexed Finance says he was actually working with them and contributing to their codebase before he pulled his exploit.