If you are not familiar with BitConnect, there are plenty of videos out there that will bring you up to speed. I never paid any attention to it but you can't help to hear about it now.
really, i never heard about bitconnect till it crashed. should i say i was lucky not to have heard of it, because i am sure that i would have been lured into investing in it.
Trevon James is a big supporter and promoter of BitConnect and directly resulted in thousands of people losing millions if not more. I don't want any part of him doing that here and have blacklisted his account.
wow this is a sad news as i just got to know about @trevonjb recently and was beginning to really like him. i am new to steemit and blockchain and so didnt really know what was going on.
but if i may ask, what is the implication of blacklisting an account on steemit?
He is not blacklisted on Steemit, I have no power to do that, neither does anyone, not even Steemit Inc.
What I did was blacklist him from using my bid bots, which means he will not be able to use them to promote his posts. I don't control all the bots, so he will still have bots to promote his message, but I don't want any part of it.
aha, so it's your bots >< I wasn't sure if the bots were yours or his. I guess I should have figured out he can't make bots tho O_o
Thanks for explaining. I was starting to think that there is some kind of blacklist on Steemit that I did not know about.
@themarkymark. Thank-you very much for clearing up this point, which I think wasn’t clear enough in your blog.
I think you are doing the right thing.
I would not want to associate myself in any way with someone who puts up affiliate links to schemes which he ought to have known was a ponzi as thousands of people told him that in their comments on youtube and steemit.
Despite the vengence and hatred being directed at him, for the last scheme, it is astonishing that he has started promoting something which looks very similar.
If you are caught out once, you know what to expect the second time.
His defence on the first one could be “I was stupid. I didn’t know people would blame me.” Now he knows, yet he continues. I wonder how his wife now feels?
Great point.
I hope others follow your example. I'd vote for you as a witness but I have already done it. Keep up the good work. Did you hear how he deleted all the bitconnect videos from his channel? Must be feeling the heat.
Yeah, it's important to always be wary of people advocating a product. It's why reading up on it from more than one source is key. I read up on Steemit before investing and read some analysis claiming it was a Ponzi. I ended up disagreeing with the analysis, but I think it's important to read from people who like and hate something before investing in it.
You can join here and invest zero dollars and make money. I have never seen a Ponzi or pyramid scheme like that.
Money has to flow in for you to take money out. Think about that for a moment.
Highly recommend throwing @cryptovestor a follow. Sober, non-sensational analysis. He’s been calling Bitconnect a Ponzi scheme for months.
Blacklisting just means he can’t buy upvotes for his posts from that bot.
He definetely sounds like that. But his content lacks in-depth information and most of his video's consist about rambling and guessing about stuff. In my opinion he gets to much recognition for his content.
I disagree with some of those points as I feel I have gained value from watching his videos. However, I never just take any creators content at face value be it @cryptovestor or @louisthomas. Doing your own research in this space is critical.
exactly who blames the people that are making money the same way as you and loosing the same way you loose on the same paltform it's just crazy that people would want to throw someone in jail who clearly tells you not to take their advice and do your own due diligence before investing...smh smart man right here you are part of the 1% in crypto who actually think for themselves. thumbs up!!
Pertinent questions...
I am not saying that an individual shouldn't take flak for promoting a bum brand, but I personally believe that there is a difference between disallowing him from using bots to promote his voice - and running him off of Steemit entirely.
I looked at it when a colleague recommended it, and I thought it looked like a scam. A month later, they're shut down. Nice to know my gut feelings still work as they should!
there's nothing wrong with @travonjb these are angry Caucasians who lost money... I invested in Bitconnect I don't blame anyone but myself same as on here if I invest here and I loose my money who do I blame every person on the platform? Its just stupid cuz if you notice there are a bunch of videos by other people doing and saying the same thing but they (Caucasians) are choosing to pick on travon and criag simply because they're Negros and the only thing Caucasians hate more than their own women is "Minorities" with money ask them they'll tell you.