PSA - Hang around here long enough, and you see the patterns...
...and they're all over Twitter and YouTube as well.
Their ultimate goal is to win you over with their personality or tech knowledge, then eventually get you to follow them down the dark path of selling all your BTC near the bottom (with some crazy bearish BTC prediction), or dumping all your BTC for some fly-by-night shitcoin scam that they suddenly start promoting out of no where.
They likely get kickbacks from someone to do this. Don't fall for it. Completely ignore these so-called "crypto experts" aka snake oil salesmen.
I know that sometimes I criticize you, Torque, for being overly conspiratorial, but I largely agree that there are some members who do end up going down this path of building trust and then abusing such trust, whether that was always the intention or that they transitioned themselves... hard to read intentions and even more difficult in the interwebs.
I will assert, though, that there are degrees of evil and levels of intent or bad intent, so in that regard, over the years, there are members whose judgement I have come to trust way more than others, and I might be willing to go down their path of logic, or even acceptance of what is going on, and give them more benefit of the doubt than others that might even cause me to change some of my actions, but at the same time, it continues to be a great practice for all members to maintain some healthy skepticism regarding other members, even of members who any of us have built decent levels of confidence over the years.
I am not going to throw the whole baby out or even start to believe everyone is against me or the whole world is out to get me... blah blah blah.
We can presume that people are generally bad or we can presume that they are generally good, yet I doubt that a person is going to be automatically disadvantaged or opening himself/herself to be scammed merely because he generally believes that most people are good....
(except on the interwebs)
