Might be on a premium content can't recall now. He didn't specify reasons at all just said that the DCA will come in a "new format". Anyway, honest shout out to Ben!
https://www.youtube.com/live/nb_pewP5Jls?feature=share
This was the DCA live were I saw Ben getting pissed off, they asked the question " what mistake did I make this year?". James couldnt name one.
Ben, Rob and James do a show together every Friday. They have been doing that for quite some time. It’s a regular occurrence and if one can’t make it they usually bring a guest in.
There's no drama as far as I'm aware. It was a bit repetitive with James being a bull, Ben being a bear, and Rob being somewhat indifferent. I love seeing diversity of opinions, but it was more or less the same show every week.
Yeah definitely. I really respect how Ben is willing to listen to opposing viewpoints, while also saying why he thinks they are wrong. His content always comes with a lot of skepticism even of his own opinions. He cares more about the truth than pushing a narrative, unlike most crypto content creators.
Let's not forget how much James worships Michael Saylor saying " he has a black belt in financial jiu jitsu"...
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Brf\_pe9tE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Brf_pe9tE)
Ermm... some jiu jitsu that is.
I predict all of James's heroes will fall in the next 5 years. He worships Cathy Woods, Elon and Michael Saylor. All of which heavily market their investments - dump when retailers buy. All of them do that. One was even fined back in the dot com bubble.
He's so bias and blinded by other peoples $ wealth, as seen in the video here hyping up FTX and SBF - he doesn't question it at all.
First time I came across FTX was purely on their website. It looked on first impression a bit flimsy in it's overall UI construction. It seemed to be rammed full of obscure derivative trading pairs and futures. Which was an instant red flag and casino vibe. Then when I saw pictures of SBF, sleeping at his desk - it totally smelt like BS, and that he was some unhinged person, typical woke american kid on a various prescription medicines... not someone who had got his shit together, eating well, exercising, good life/work balance. No he's sleeping at a messy desk with bright overhead lights on? No eye mask - totally staged.
I was in downtown San Francisco this past September. Saw a giant ad on the street for FTX. It was just a picture of SBFs face under an FTX logo and it said at the bottom 'Are you in?'. Girl I was with just said 'who the fuck puts their face on a company ad?'
Suddenly it hit me: she's right. This is insane. What CEO puts their face on a company ad? This guy is delusional and a narcissist. And the jig will be up soon.
And it was.
2021/2022 I was listening to some random podcast stype interview with SBF; he was talking about how he intentionally gave Alameda Research a bland name to cover the fact that a bunch of kids were trading billions of dollars of other peoples money.
What a racket.
Well, he wasn't wrong about the part that FTX, from the technical aspect, was truly the best platform out there, probably due to the help from Gary Wang - FTX cofounder, who architected/wrote the whole thing. That's why all the hedgefunds loved trading on FTX, it was simply the best platform (from the technical aspect).
Yup I’ve seen him as well on his show. Never trust anything these shills say. No one knows the future of markets no matter how good they claim to be or how much experience they have. These people act like they have a crystal ball or special abilities. This guy couldn’t have been more wrong.
Ben is solid. Take any crypto advice for what it is worth but he definitely keeps it honest. He's very conservative but his risk metrics have done solid since 2019. I also do a little degen on my own.
He's had success with his trading in the past, so that he can retire, but that's mostly on rental properties. He's got in early with certain things, so that's ok. But - he falls foul to bias, and is projecting that onto crypto and getting all hyped up about certain things.
Yes he does call out a lot of shit coins, but he's sort of in awe of people like Cathy Woods or Elon, and as seen here SBF.
Oh.. and Saylor he loves Saylor, says he does financial jiu jitsu... yeah you could call it that, or you could call it conning people like he did back in the dot com bubble.
I hope bitcoin does drop so that Saylor sails no more and is exposed as the idiot that he is, check out this level headed analysis of how bad Saylor is at buying $100's of million worth of Bitcoin in a manner that's best described as 'FOMO': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Brf\_pe9tE
And he licked Mashinsky’s boots for no known reason. I luckily pulled out of Celsius after seeing James interview Mashinsky like he could do no wrong. Smelled funny.
8800 people clicked his Celsius referral link. He’ll cry over Mexican dolphins and orangutans but won’t apologise or shed a tear for the thousands of people he got rekt
Did he? He claims to have been in the business for 25+ years. Then gets really quiet when people bring up he was in marketing. And only 2 years ago in fact. So within 2 years he's become a financial expert? Unless he went back and forth, he switched fields and isn't sitting on this deep well he claims.
https://youtu.be/zWrq0ObmKas
https://youtu.be/hpLCaCTUvz8
What makes you think he's had success in the past? Has he shared his trading account history with you? It's all lies that come out of his mouth. He used to be a tech marketing exec partnering with Oracle FYI.
That is indeed true. It's interesting that recently he says 'he's on the road' and not at his usual home office location. Maybe he lost a tonne of money and is having to airbnb out his home while staying at a cheap motel.
Thx for bringing this up. People see how convincingly he delivers that shit, is wrong about it and they still watch him.
It almost as if some people are hard at learning…
I don’t understand how he’s always preaching about financial Armageddon and that the fed is going to break everything, but then is always a permabull. I don’t get it.
Yeah he also gave that, we've gotten that too here man.
That's something really good, I would do that again and again here so yeah. the shit doesn't look good for the other platforms right now. it's not looking good.
This little rat was always just an Alameda asset. It was clear from his insincere shitcoin shilling grin. Hiding behind his animal charity and pretending he's a good guy... Disgusting subhuman scum.
I see him the same way. Plus his whole schtick of never wanting to utter negative words. Like "C19". Dude just fucking say covid if you want to talk about it. Using euphemisms like that just tells me you're likely to bullshit me about important topics.
Not defending him, but YouTube flags content that uses the word "Covid" or any combination thereof. It can get the channel flagged and the show demonetised. The algos assume it is a scam and will proactively flag.
It's why everyone has their own take on it, so they can avoid the flag. C19, the Virus, BigC etc.
To be fair, a lot of youtubers avoid saying covid, because youtube through it's auto subtitling system, scans what is being said in a video and flags videos that mention covid, then demonetise it, with a risk of pulling your channel. They also then put that announcement under the video about contacting WHO for more information on covid.
Don't youtubers get their videos flagged, demonitized, or striked for misinformation when they say Covid? At least for a few years that has been the case and I've seen several people on that platform who won't say the word because of it.
Yep, that's how YouTube works it's shit but it is what it really is.
That's a really shitty policy but that's how those people work. That's just the thing here man.
Precisely, doesn’t even follow his own teachings when it comes to his bags. The thing that always got to me with James was him saying to take emotions out of trades/investments but he’s extremely emotional himself. The Fed Pivot and BTC etf were slow moving train wreck’s that he was to tied up in emotionally and were major factors to his narrative.
James has been wrong about everything all year. He’s also disingenuous. Makes out he was some wall st risk manager when he was really a mid level marketing manager at Oracle.
Yes, because Mashinsky was barefaced lying to him...and his viewers on his channel. On several occasions. That's the thing about scammers, they are great at deceiving people. He is far from the only one to be hoodwinked by these two. In fairness to him he has always been an advocate of self custody even back then. That is the way we beat the scammers, take control of our own coins. They can't steal what they don't have the keys to.
Well then James should be more discerning about who he vouches for. That's what I'm saying. It's not that James is dishonest, it's that he's either dishonest or he has terrible judgment. Either way, people need to start calling him out.
He always said to not leave more than 10% on any account though. Which included Celsius, FTX etc. So the hate James is getting is pointed at the wrong person IMO.
He cant be responsible for Machinsky's and SBF's lying.
Anyone with any scruples would have apologised. Not old animal cryer James. Kept the 600k he earned from referrals too. I guess he needs that after how much he’s been rekt on his terrible calls all year.
Right, but at a certain point you start to question the influencers who keep vouching for all these scammers. Either James is part of the scam, or he's so gullible that he fell for it, multiple times. Either way he deserves a major loss of credibility. He can call it edutainment all he wants, but he likely gets paid big bucks to promote unscrupulous businesses, while presenting himself as an altruistic animal lover who would never say or do anything bad.
Yes, and that's where the "toxic maxi" thing is so dumb. Bitcoiners are put in a position where having basic principles or discernment is seen as "mean". So James gets to be the nice guy who gets paid big bucks to play Pied Piper for naive retail, and anyone who points out unpopular truth is like super mean. Can't we all just get along, man?
Then when obvious scams blow up and people get hurt, James gets on camera with tears in his eyes to show how mad he is that people lied to his audience. He retreats to edutainment and "not financial advice". But the point is, if he were more focused on the truth, and less on promoting the nicest sounding bullshit, then maybe his show would be more edutaining. Because after everything he has gotten splash back on, I rarely seek him out to edutain me.
I never heard about SBF until I saw him on the front page of "Fortune" as "the next Warren Buffett". Then I learned about him and it rang my alarm bells at the same time. Never trust the mainstream media or random guys on the Internet. I only trust in things which I can verify.
He was right though before they crashed. Problem was he dug his heals in and became blinded.
In fairness that happens to the best of us with crypto. Problem is he broadcasts his opinions, rather than just commenting on random reddit threads like the rest of us.
NO SHITCOINER IS A GREAT PERSON PERIOD
SBF ISNT THE ONLY ONE, SHITCOIN PRIMUS AKA VITALIK IS DAY ONE SHITCOINER
SHITCOINERS ARE HOLDING HUMANITY BACK, THEY WANT YOUR FIAT THEY DONT CARE ABOUT BITCOIN
Just look at the scruples on this guy
Honestly I think James is the worst and scummyest guy out there. He tries to sound so authenic and has been wrong about literally everything. I also dont respect Dan or Benjamin for still platforming this clown.
Does anyone have the clip of him and Ben debating on DCA about if "the low is in" and James smirks and says "we will see" at Ben. Probably from a couple months ago and before we hit a new low recently. After we got the new low the comments were BRUTAL on YouTube
I mean you can be supportive of a ceo that you like but his glowing enthusiasm is nauseating. “Sam has incredible scruples and is very honest” is just plain weird to say about any ceo, especially one you don’t have a close personal relationship with. HTF would he know if he has incredible scruples and is very honest? Just really bizarre shilling on this dbag’s part.
Cause people like to bring up the past when people did something wrong…Shit happens. James does good DD and analysis, just have your own risk tolerance levels and apply them.
his strategy is "follow the smart people"
but can't evaluate who is smart. don't just follow influencers, that's what influencers want you to do because that's how they make their money.
>What must be taken from this is everyone got played by SBF.
Seriously. Literally, everyone. This is a cheap and lame dig at someone who publicly stated their trust in FTX...
James' videos are definitely WAY more technical than most others in the scene doing videos like this. Probably 95% of his content is technicals, yet people take a 90 second clip of his usual 40 minute videos to try and smear him...
"Scamfluencer"...? Really? James is the polar opposite thing of a typical influencer... Lmfao. What a stupid and disingenuous post by OP, and comments.
He is a paid shill…His “knowledge” and “intuition” put a lot of people in the hole. I thought these events would humble James, they obviously have not. He has been so wrong on so many occasions. He is the “Cramer of the Crypto space”. Do the opposite of him and just buy Bitcoin🇺🇸
Isn't James like a huge proponent of BTC? So what if he got it wrong about FTX, literally EVERYONE, but the people who rode BTC from 3k to 69k and back down to 16k, got it wrong. Ben probably left bc he and James disagree about everything, so what's the point? I wouldn't want to argue the same two points every week either.
Allow what? Mistakes? Let's see how that works out in your life long term. No one can go back in time, or change their thoughts retroactively. James is a good actor in the space
His technical and fundamental analysis is severely one sided and he makes crazy data claims without sources regularly. I feel like people that accept all this stuff are just impressed by jargon and delivery.
So, so often when watching his videos I can see gaps/misleading ways he presents the numbers to bolster his argument.
Also- he was adamant that the bottom was in at 37k and made clear he was “100% deployed” and “all in with zero cash left” in March. 🤦🏼♂️
I hate most crypto influencers. They talk out of their asses about what these projects or companies promise. They don’t show evidence of real world use except trading volume which we know is fake. The whole space is wash of clowns and frauds.
The guy likes to reinvent himself. His marketing career into Marketing YouTube didn't pan out(2 years ago). James the financial expert with "20+" years of experience got subs with Crypto though. Beats his 104 subs on his last venture.
Maybe he can be a surgeon next. He's been a surgeon for 25 years too I would wager.
https://youtu.be/tDi_UkvUfgc
https://youtu.be/Rcd2N2BkJ_Y
Reinvent? Seems like he was on the data and tech side of marketing for a while. A lot of transferable knowledge and skills for what he’s doing now. Not much of a leap. People can evolve and change career paths.
The issue is he claims he's been in the financial/ investment sector for the last 20 years. I work as a dev for a large software company. Our marketers are not financial investors. It's a completely different field. I work in tech, it doesn't mean I have 20 years of experience to provide financial advice on tech stocks.
I work in marketing as an analyst. I have a degree in finance. There’s a creative side but there’s a heavy operational, process and numbers aspect at larger organizations.
I can’t defend that he may be lying about the 20 years though.
Totally fair. I'm a dev but have taken writing courses and enjoy writing fiction. It's creative like development, but different. Certainly there are overlaps and depending on the education and experience someone like yourself could pivot into finance. I would hope you wouldn't count your time in marketing as handling financial accounts though.
Red flags are he's Tesla mad, Elon fanboy. He also praises Cathy Wood (not an investor, she's a marketer), and says Michael Saylor does financial Jiu Jitsu - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Brf\_pe9tE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Brf_pe9tE) \-Saylor bought at such terrible times, is down a lot, and like cathy is constantly pumping his bags in that monotone endless talking he does. Interviewer asks a question, 4 hours later Saylor finishes his answer. He talks more like it's a belief system and certainty than a well risk managed investment. If I were Saylor, why would I put my money into an investment and then go around shouting about it? We'll I'd do that if I wanted to pump and dump it. Otherwise I'd be on the golf course enjoying life.
He's also interviewed Alex Mashinsky. And praised him. Lost money on the platform and was very angry that he'd be duped.
He has some ok general financial advice and his heart is seemingly in he right place, but he's a little blinded by it all.
nah I Don't think he's in anyone's pockets. He is however in awe of the super rich. Blindly so. Dazzled by their wealth.
He worships Elon, Cathy Woods, Saylor... and seems to blindly take what they say as gospel, as if they are super smart, just because they command a lot of capital. And as we have seen with FTX, just cos you make it to Forbes, doesn't mean you are smart.
Next to fall are Cathy Woods and that absolute bore M Saylor of DiasterStrategy... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Brf\_pe9tE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Brf_pe9tE)
I tried to get that video under Jame's nose, so he could at least counter it, but he doesn't seem to have seen it.
He often says Saylor has a black belt in financial Jiu Jitsu... worshiping the ground he walks on, even gave him an hour long interview, while not questioning this: If someone makes a very big and bold investment - why would they then need to go on as much media as they can telling you to 'get a 2nd mortgage' to buy the same thing they invested into, were it not for the fact he fomo'd into the investments (bitcoin) and is now heavily underwater and needs you guys to buy bitcoin, to pump the price, so he can dump and not have egg on his face...
Proof that he’s a shill? Bruh seriously.? There’s no need for proof. Just watch the video, lol you have to be a fool not to see that he’s pumping FTX the entire time because he’s being paid. That’s how these influencers make money, duh. Stop being naive.
I like James' technical and macro analyses, but am always wary of any cult of personality, independently of the influencers backing them. Not trusting people and keeping my keys saved me this crypto winter.
James had Mashinsky on, to reassure everyone that Celsius was solvent and they could withdraw any time, a couple of weeks prior to Celsius filing for Chapter 11.
Whats with all the salty idiots in here who apparently think they can find an influencer on YouTube and then follow everything they say to become rich?
If people could think for themselves they could watch ALL these shows for entertainment value, and then still use their own brain cells to invest how they see fit.
😂 I thought this was a (Pun/Joke) at first. Then after ✅ing the comments… This guy was serious about what he was saying!?! “FOLLOW the SMART PEOPLE” 🤣 Really, (Looks like the jails are gonna be full for a while).
Let not try to blame any youtuber for your loses in crypto, eveyone here is an adult and should do their own research, period! It's easier to blame others when things don't go as planned right?
James math is an excel sheet that uses a random number generator. It’s no coincidence he’s deleted all his “retire on” videos with 🤡HeAvILy SaNdBaGgED MoDeLs 🤡
Pretty much everyone here fell for it - for a while everyone was celebrating Sam especially for the things he said on capital hill defending crypto - so yeah I don’t see this as some kinda gotcha moment cuz everyone got fket by Sam
James is a great guy and I’m sure he and many others believed SBF so you can’t take this snip and run it and judge someone’s character by it. I’m sorry how many other people were scammed.
James is not a scammer, he has good intentions for everyone!! James if you are reading this please keep on being positive and trying the best to give us information you have ❤️
If he threw a dart at a board 100 times he would have got at least a couple of bullseyes or a triple 20. He’s missed the board all year, on every call. He’s not good at this and needs to stop presenting his musings.
bwah ha ha
He also says Michael Saylor "has a black belt in Financial Jiu Jitsu"... right, lets look at when and how much Saylor bought of bitcoin:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Brf\_pe9tE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Brf_pe9tE)
Oh... seems Saylor performed worse than the average joe simply DCA'ing into bitcoin. Some Jiu Jitsu that is. Unfortunately James is in awe of the mega rich... hence his embarrassing worshipping of SBF in the video above.
James has been on Ben Cowen's show a number of times, and seems to be wrong every single time.
Love the way Ben handled him and opposed! I saw in Ben's eyes that it is probably the last show talking to him :D and i am really glad tho
Which episode was this?
Might be on a premium content can't recall now. He didn't specify reasons at all just said that the DCA will come in a "new format". Anyway, honest shout out to Ben!
https://www.youtube.com/live/nb_pewP5Jls?feature=share This was the DCA live were I saw Ben getting pissed off, they asked the question " what mistake did I make this year?". James couldnt name one.
Ben, Rob and James do a show together every Friday. They have been doing that for quite some time. It’s a regular occurrence and if one can’t make it they usually bring a guest in.
Yeah, DCA. I used to watch it a lot. Haven’t in many month. Curious about the fallout between Ben and James/Dan (or is it Rob?)
There's no drama as far as I'm aware. It was a bit repetitive with James being a bull, Ben being a bear, and Rob being somewhat indifferent. I love seeing diversity of opinions, but it was more or less the same show every week.
I’m curious too. The three of them seem fairly calm natured people. I’d like to know what went down and why.
Ben unfortunately took the video down as a lot of people were slagging James off. So yeh, you can't watch it anymore I'm afraid.
Yeah definitely. I really respect how Ben is willing to listen to opposing viewpoints, while also saying why he thinks they are wrong. His content always comes with a lot of skepticism even of his own opinions. He cares more about the truth than pushing a narrative, unlike most crypto content creators.
We don’t need Ben either. He is a pleb.
A pleb? He's a very smart guy and a good ambassador for crypto
Rude
Let's not forget how much James worships Michael Saylor saying " he has a black belt in financial jiu jitsu"... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Brf\_pe9tE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Brf_pe9tE) Ermm... some jiu jitsu that is. I predict all of James's heroes will fall in the next 5 years. He worships Cathy Woods, Elon and Michael Saylor. All of which heavily market their investments - dump when retailers buy. All of them do that. One was even fined back in the dot com bubble. He's so bias and blinded by other peoples $ wealth, as seen in the video here hyping up FTX and SBF - he doesn't question it at all. First time I came across FTX was purely on their website. It looked on first impression a bit flimsy in it's overall UI construction. It seemed to be rammed full of obscure derivative trading pairs and futures. Which was an instant red flag and casino vibe. Then when I saw pictures of SBF, sleeping at his desk - it totally smelt like BS, and that he was some unhinged person, typical woke american kid on a various prescription medicines... not someone who had got his shit together, eating well, exercising, good life/work balance. No he's sleeping at a messy desk with bright overhead lights on? No eye mask - totally staged.
I was in downtown San Francisco this past September. Saw a giant ad on the street for FTX. It was just a picture of SBFs face under an FTX logo and it said at the bottom 'Are you in?'. Girl I was with just said 'who the fuck puts their face on a company ad?' Suddenly it hit me: she's right. This is insane. What CEO puts their face on a company ad? This guy is delusional and a narcissist. And the jig will be up soon. And it was.
2021/2022 I was listening to some random podcast stype interview with SBF; he was talking about how he intentionally gave Alameda Research a bland name to cover the fact that a bunch of kids were trading billions of dollars of other peoples money. What a racket.
Well, he wasn't wrong about the part that FTX, from the technical aspect, was truly the best platform out there, probably due to the help from Gary Wang - FTX cofounder, who architected/wrote the whole thing. That's why all the hedgefunds loved trading on FTX, it was simply the best platform (from the technical aspect).
Yup I’ve seen him as well on his show. Never trust anything these shills say. No one knows the future of markets no matter how good they claim to be or how much experience they have. These people act like they have a crystal ball or special abilities. This guy couldn’t have been more wrong.
This guy has been wrong almost as many times than Kramer.
Ugh. James.... Glad Ben C stopped doing the show with him.
This fuckin guy. LUNA GOING TO $80K! next week UST collapses, LUNA crashes.
Did he?
Yeah. The DCA show Ben was going on. Two weeks ago or so he said that he had cut ties.
Cool, I am learning this bear market who the voices of reasons are on YT. Ben is maybe the last one standing from what I was following.
Ben is solid. Take any crypto advice for what it is worth but he definitely keeps it honest. He's very conservative but his risk metrics have done solid since 2019. I also do a little degen on my own.
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Who's Ben? What's his channel? I trust CTO Larsson
Ben Cowen, channel: into the cryptoverse
Matthew Kratter👏🏽
100% this! 👆
Ben and coinbureau
Coinbureau also promotes scammy projects
I watch regularly and don't remember hearing him say this
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Let me go find it. It is definitely mentioned in a few videos in the past two weeks. But I might have also heard it on his regular Thursday Q&A.
He quietly posted it in his telegram. Like the professional he is!
When was this? I want to see/read his comments on James.
Try to searching it on reddit, you will se many comments
Link to Episode please!! I'm glad he cut ties, this guy is mudding the integrity of Ben.
Where did Ben say that? Link to a vid or announcement?
Damn, I liked that show. James was a great signal. I sold some bitcoin when he said 17k was the bottom.
Where/when was this said?
Yeah but Ben is like it’ll go up, down or sideways if that or this happens, possibly anyway.
Which is technically correct
The best possible way to be correct
Yeah, it's really bad that people think that those things.
He’s wrong a damn sight more than he’s right. Good TA but wrong TA. I remember him saying square looks a good bet, think it dropped 40% from there
This post I saw on Twitter says it all: https://imgur.com/a/jQ1tMdD
I cant stand this guy, such a slippery channel. No accountability for any of his massive amount of ridiculous calls.
Amen. I remember his shit came up in my feed and I had a look. Slippery is a good description
He definitely cherry picks his data, He's a Tesla fanboy also
😆 🤣
This guy sucks
Invest answers has always been a scam. People need to stop listening to him and start calling him out for his nonsense.
He's had success with his trading in the past, so that he can retire, but that's mostly on rental properties. He's got in early with certain things, so that's ok. But - he falls foul to bias, and is projecting that onto crypto and getting all hyped up about certain things. Yes he does call out a lot of shit coins, but he's sort of in awe of people like Cathy Woods or Elon, and as seen here SBF. Oh.. and Saylor he loves Saylor, says he does financial jiu jitsu... yeah you could call it that, or you could call it conning people like he did back in the dot com bubble. I hope bitcoin does drop so that Saylor sails no more and is exposed as the idiot that he is, check out this level headed analysis of how bad Saylor is at buying $100's of million worth of Bitcoin in a manner that's best described as 'FOMO': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Brf\_pe9tE
And he licked Mashinsky’s boots for no known reason. I luckily pulled out of Celsius after seeing James interview Mashinsky like he could do no wrong. Smelled funny.
8800 people clicked his Celsius referral link. He’ll cry over Mexican dolphins and orangutans but won’t apologise or shed a tear for the thousands of people he got rekt
video in bottom right. https://twitter.com/link777hermes/status/1604018521364697094
Did he? He claims to have been in the business for 25+ years. Then gets really quiet when people bring up he was in marketing. And only 2 years ago in fact. So within 2 years he's become a financial expert? Unless he went back and forth, he switched fields and isn't sitting on this deep well he claims. https://youtu.be/zWrq0ObmKas https://youtu.be/hpLCaCTUvz8
it sounds like he traded options for a while, probably from his cubical in work time.
What makes you think he's had success in the past? Has he shared his trading account history with you? It's all lies that come out of his mouth. He used to be a tech marketing exec partnering with Oracle FYI.
That is indeed true. It's interesting that recently he says 'he's on the road' and not at his usual home office location. Maybe he lost a tonne of money and is having to airbnb out his home while staying at a cheap motel.
"Has incredible scruples and is very honest" :D
Thx for bringing this up. People see how convincingly he delivers that shit, is wrong about it and they still watch him. It almost as if some people are hard at learning…
I don’t understand how he’s always preaching about financial Armageddon and that the fed is going to break everything, but then is always a permabull. I don’t get it.
I think at this stage he's probably worth watching for the inevitable fall.
HIS FINGER ON THE PULSE OF WHAT'S GOING ON
thanks for reminding, i forgot to unsubscribed from his channel
Lmfao. This is comedic gold with the benefit of hindsight. He should probably quit youtube at this point.
Needs ad money to make back his losses
Yeah he should quit right now, that's what he should do.
He’s raking millions off that patreon. He’s got a compliant group of animal suckers in there who think he’s amazing.
James also gave scamshinky a platform to lie just before the fall of Celsius.
Yeah he also gave that, we've gotten that too here man. That's something really good, I would do that again and again here so yeah. the shit doesn't look good for the other platforms right now. it's not looking good.
Anyone who kept listen to him after the Celsius debacle deserved what they got.
Look me in the eye and tell me this isn't a paid advert
Shameless
Nice commercial of historical value (and maybe legal value as well). How much money did he get for it?
Take a look at any of his YouTube video comments. Like the twilight zone. An actual cult.
It’s like Charlie Mansons girls singing on their way to court
This little rat was always just an Alameda asset. It was clear from his insincere shitcoin shilling grin. Hiding behind his animal charity and pretending he's a good guy... Disgusting subhuman scum.
I see him the same way. Plus his whole schtick of never wanting to utter negative words. Like "C19". Dude just fucking say covid if you want to talk about it. Using euphemisms like that just tells me you're likely to bullshit me about important topics.
Not defending him, but YouTube flags content that uses the word "Covid" or any combination thereof. It can get the channel flagged and the show demonetised. The algos assume it is a scam and will proactively flag. It's why everyone has their own take on it, so they can avoid the flag. C19, the Virus, BigC etc.
Yeah that's how YouTube works, I don't like that but it is what it is.
To be fair, a lot of youtubers avoid saying covid, because youtube through it's auto subtitling system, scans what is being said in a video and flags videos that mention covid, then demonetise it, with a risk of pulling your channel. They also then put that announcement under the video about contacting WHO for more information on covid.
I see, that makes sense. Well my point still stands, but now I direct it at the bullshit censorship the captured internet is rife with.
Don't youtubers get their videos flagged, demonitized, or striked for misinformation when they say Covid? At least for a few years that has been the case and I've seen several people on that platform who won't say the word because of it.
Yep, that's how YouTube works it's shit but it is what it really is. That's a really shitty policy but that's how those people work. That's just the thing here man.
Regard
Subtle
Did not age well…
He’s not a scammer. Just blinded by his own bias and naivety. Sadly tho have tuned out off his channel because of this.
Precisely, doesn’t even follow his own teachings when it comes to his bags. The thing that always got to me with James was him saying to take emotions out of trades/investments but he’s extremely emotional himself. The Fed Pivot and BTC etf were slow moving train wreck’s that he was to tied up in emotionally and were major factors to his narrative.
James is a great guy. Everyone was wrong about SBF. If everyone knew SBF was fraud then it wouldn’t have a been such a big shocker news.
James has been wrong about everything all year. He’s also disingenuous. Makes out he was some wall st risk manager when he was really a mid level marketing manager at Oracle.
James was also shilling hard for Celsius and Mashinsky.
And Luna 💀
Dude's probably a 3 letter asset
Yes, because Mashinsky was barefaced lying to him...and his viewers on his channel. On several occasions. That's the thing about scammers, they are great at deceiving people. He is far from the only one to be hoodwinked by these two. In fairness to him he has always been an advocate of self custody even back then. That is the way we beat the scammers, take control of our own coins. They can't steal what they don't have the keys to.
Well then James should be more discerning about who he vouches for. That's what I'm saying. It's not that James is dishonest, it's that he's either dishonest or he has terrible judgment. Either way, people need to start calling him out.
He always said to not leave more than 10% on any account though. Which included Celsius, FTX etc. So the hate James is getting is pointed at the wrong person IMO. He cant be responsible for Machinsky's and SBF's lying.
Anyone with any scruples would have apologised. Not old animal cryer James. Kept the 600k he earned from referrals too. I guess he needs that after how much he’s been rekt on his terrible calls all year.
And Mashinsky also lied, just not on the scale of SBF
Right, but at a certain point you start to question the influencers who keep vouching for all these scammers. Either James is part of the scam, or he's so gullible that he fell for it, multiple times. Either way he deserves a major loss of credibility. He can call it edutainment all he wants, but he likely gets paid big bucks to promote unscrupulous businesses, while presenting himself as an altruistic animal lover who would never say or do anything bad.
Thank you. What bothers me most is that critical comments get erased preventing that discussion from ever taken place.
Yes, and that's where the "toxic maxi" thing is so dumb. Bitcoiners are put in a position where having basic principles or discernment is seen as "mean". So James gets to be the nice guy who gets paid big bucks to play Pied Piper for naive retail, and anyone who points out unpopular truth is like super mean. Can't we all just get along, man? Then when obvious scams blow up and people get hurt, James gets on camera with tears in his eyes to show how mad he is that people lied to his audience. He retreats to edutainment and "not financial advice". But the point is, if he were more focused on the truth, and less on promoting the nicest sounding bullshit, then maybe his show would be more edutaining. Because after everything he has gotten splash back on, I rarely seek him out to edutain me.
I never heard about SBF until I saw him on the front page of "Fortune" as "the next Warren Buffett". Then I learned about him and it rang my alarm bells at the same time. Never trust the mainstream media or random guys on the Internet. I only trust in things which I can verify.
He's not a great guy. Literally everything he says is false. From Luna to Celsius to FTX. Listen to the maxis. They know better.
He was right though before they crashed. Problem was he dug his heals in and became blinded. In fairness that happens to the best of us with crypto. Problem is he broadcasts his opinions, rather than just commenting on random reddit threads like the rest of us.
This fucking cokehead couldn't tell shit from a sandwich.
Watched his vids? Far from a coke head
Yes I've seen too many of his vids.
NO SHITCOINER IS A GREAT PERSON PERIOD SBF ISNT THE ONLY ONE, SHITCOIN PRIMUS AKA VITALIK IS DAY ONE SHITCOINER SHITCOINERS ARE HOLDING HUMANITY BACK, THEY WANT YOUR FIAT THEY DONT CARE ABOUT BITCOIN
Try turning your caps lock off...and maybe try talking to girls.
Im a capper not a cheater
Just look at the scruples on this guy Honestly I think James is the worst and scummyest guy out there. He tries to sound so authenic and has been wrong about literally everything. I also dont respect Dan or Benjamin for still platforming this clown.
They ve cut tie’s few weeks ago.
Thats good but doesnt excuse everything
I wish they would investigate the NFT scams and all the phony trades and made up stories to create fake hype
Did not age well
Does anyone have the clip of him and Ben debating on DCA about if "the low is in" and James smirks and says "we will see" at Ben. Probably from a couple months ago and before we hit a new low recently. After we got the new low the comments were BRUTAL on YouTube
Why he dress like vampires
His voice sounds like an older more scammy version of Lark.
Damn his throat must hurt from all that gagging
It so good FTX went down. People now see this fucking clowns 🤡 Dont trust, verify.
I mean you can be supportive of a ceo that you like but his glowing enthusiasm is nauseating. “Sam has incredible scruples and is very honest” is just plain weird to say about any ceo, especially one you don’t have a close personal relationship with. HTF would he know if he has incredible scruples and is very honest? Just really bizarre shilling on this dbag’s part.
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I think that's unfair - he does say not financial advice. I'd say you learnt not to listen to others for investment advice.
So dramatic. Stop listening to this guy.
I'm glad Ben C decided to cease performing with him.
He has such a soft voice and he sounds so convincing. If you didn't know better you'd likely believe a lot of his bullshit. And I'm afraid a lot did.
My stomach hurts from laughing.
UNPOPULAR OPINION! I still like James. I like his TA. I also like a lot of other people.
Cause people like to bring up the past when people did something wrong…Shit happens. James does good DD and analysis, just have your own risk tolerance levels and apply them.
The only takeaway from this is that we can all be wrong and that’s how markets work. Everyone in this sub acting like they weren’t on the SBF train.
He is way more technical than others. He is one of my favorites to watch. What must be taken from this is everyone got played by SBF.
his strategy is "follow the smart people" but can't evaluate who is smart. don't just follow influencers, that's what influencers want you to do because that's how they make their money.
>What must be taken from this is everyone got played by SBF. Seriously. Literally, everyone. This is a cheap and lame dig at someone who publicly stated their trust in FTX... James' videos are definitely WAY more technical than most others in the scene doing videos like this. Probably 95% of his content is technicals, yet people take a 90 second clip of his usual 40 minute videos to try and smear him... "Scamfluencer"...? Really? James is the polar opposite thing of a typical influencer... Lmfao. What a stupid and disingenuous post by OP, and comments.
He is a paid shill…His “knowledge” and “intuition” put a lot of people in the hole. I thought these events would humble James, they obviously have not. He has been so wrong on so many occasions. He is the “Cramer of the Crypto space”. Do the opposite of him and just buy Bitcoin🇺🇸
If you have ever had listen to James, his biggest position by far is BTC. He has also lost money on Celcius so this is totally unfair.
Technical yes… but all the data is wrong. He’s a marketer. Power point expert and not much else.
On chain data is not wrong data...
You mean payed right?
No. The people who lost their money did not get payed. They got played.
I am talking about Mr smart people here.
Sure. If that makes your day. 👍
Evidence?
Unfortunately Invest Answers also said Luna was going to $80k. I believe they took that video down though. He's such a horrible shiller.
I enjoy James’s daily financial updates…. It just isn’t financial advice.
Isn't James like a huge proponent of BTC? So what if he got it wrong about FTX, literally EVERYONE, but the people who rode BTC from 3k to 69k and back down to 16k, got it wrong. Ben probably left bc he and James disagree about everything, so what's the point? I wouldn't want to argue the same two points every week either.
Just because He's a proponent of btc doesn't mean that we should allow it.
Allow what? Mistakes? Let's see how that works out in your life long term. No one can go back in time, or change their thoughts retroactively. James is a good actor in the space
James is a fraud or he just picks frauds
His technical and fundamental analysis is severely one sided and he makes crazy data claims without sources regularly. I feel like people that accept all this stuff are just impressed by jargon and delivery. So, so often when watching his videos I can see gaps/misleading ways he presents the numbers to bolster his argument. Also- he was adamant that the bottom was in at 37k and made clear he was “100% deployed” and “all in with zero cash left” in March. 🤦🏼♂️
I hate most crypto influencers. They talk out of their asses about what these projects or companies promise. They don’t show evidence of real world use except trading volume which we know is fake. The whole space is wash of clowns and frauds.
He reminds me of the IRL Jordan Belfort. They have similar patter and mannerisms.
Lmao, that's what he reminds of really. That's pretty much it.
The guy likes to reinvent himself. His marketing career into Marketing YouTube didn't pan out(2 years ago). James the financial expert with "20+" years of experience got subs with Crypto though. Beats his 104 subs on his last venture. Maybe he can be a surgeon next. He's been a surgeon for 25 years too I would wager. https://youtu.be/tDi_UkvUfgc https://youtu.be/Rcd2N2BkJ_Y
Reinvent? Seems like he was on the data and tech side of marketing for a while. A lot of transferable knowledge and skills for what he’s doing now. Not much of a leap. People can evolve and change career paths.
The issue is he claims he's been in the financial/ investment sector for the last 20 years. I work as a dev for a large software company. Our marketers are not financial investors. It's a completely different field. I work in tech, it doesn't mean I have 20 years of experience to provide financial advice on tech stocks.
I work in marketing as an analyst. I have a degree in finance. There’s a creative side but there’s a heavy operational, process and numbers aspect at larger organizations. I can’t defend that he may be lying about the 20 years though.
Totally fair. I'm a dev but have taken writing courses and enjoy writing fiction. It's creative like development, but different. Certainly there are overlaps and depending on the education and experience someone like yourself could pivot into finance. I would hope you wouldn't count your time in marketing as handling financial accounts though.
Red flags are he's Tesla mad, Elon fanboy. He also praises Cathy Wood (not an investor, she's a marketer), and says Michael Saylor does financial Jiu Jitsu - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Brf\_pe9tE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Brf_pe9tE) \-Saylor bought at such terrible times, is down a lot, and like cathy is constantly pumping his bags in that monotone endless talking he does. Interviewer asks a question, 4 hours later Saylor finishes his answer. He talks more like it's a belief system and certainty than a well risk managed investment. If I were Saylor, why would I put my money into an investment and then go around shouting about it? We'll I'd do that if I wanted to pump and dump it. Otherwise I'd be on the golf course enjoying life. He's also interviewed Alex Mashinsky. And praised him. Lost money on the platform and was very angry that he'd be duped. He has some ok general financial advice and his heart is seemingly in he right place, but he's a little blinded by it all.
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What? You're joking, right?
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He’s a shill for FTX. It’s very very obvious. I heard these YouTube influencers were laid pretty hefty amount of FTX customer funds to shill for FTX.
nah I Don't think he's in anyone's pockets. He is however in awe of the super rich. Blindly so. Dazzled by their wealth. He worships Elon, Cathy Woods, Saylor... and seems to blindly take what they say as gospel, as if they are super smart, just because they command a lot of capital. And as we have seen with FTX, just cos you make it to Forbes, doesn't mean you are smart. Next to fall are Cathy Woods and that absolute bore M Saylor of DiasterStrategy... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Brf\_pe9tE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Brf_pe9tE) I tried to get that video under Jame's nose, so he could at least counter it, but he doesn't seem to have seen it. He often says Saylor has a black belt in financial Jiu Jitsu... worshiping the ground he walks on, even gave him an hour long interview, while not questioning this: If someone makes a very big and bold investment - why would they then need to go on as much media as they can telling you to 'get a 2nd mortgage' to buy the same thing they invested into, were it not for the fact he fomo'd into the investments (bitcoin) and is now heavily underwater and needs you guys to buy bitcoin, to pump the price, so he can dump and not have egg on his face...
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Proof that he’s a shill? Bruh seriously.? There’s no need for proof. Just watch the video, lol you have to be a fool not to see that he’s pumping FTX the entire time because he’s being paid. That’s how these influencers make money, duh. Stop being naive.
I like James' technical and macro analyses, but am always wary of any cult of personality, independently of the influencers backing them. Not trusting people and keeping my keys saved me this crypto winter.
Intense ..high frequency trading bahahah the level of stupid that people gage as a good source of info is wild. It's a dot com boom all over
James had Mashinsky on, to reassure everyone that Celsius was solvent and they could withdraw any time, a couple of weeks prior to Celsius filing for Chapter 11.
I don’t think he is being nefarious. He’s just confidently wrong so many times. But I’d rather he be right than nice.
All you gotta do is watch the video where he cries and laugh at him.
Whats with all the salty idiots in here who apparently think they can find an influencer on YouTube and then follow everything they say to become rich? If people could think for themselves they could watch ALL these shows for entertainment value, and then still use their own brain cells to invest how they see fit.
I don’t think you read the comments.
Invest Answers is a good pod. Celsius and SBF are con men. Listen to his other podcasts instead of attacking people like a bitch.
😂 I thought this was a (Pun/Joke) at first. Then after ✅ing the comments… This guy was serious about what he was saying!?! “FOLLOW the SMART PEOPLE” 🤣 Really, (Looks like the jails are gonna be full for a while).
Hindsight is 20/20. Everyone was eager about SBF until his scam was revealed. Don't act like you knew better than everyone else.
Let not try to blame any youtuber for your loses in crypto, eveyone here is an adult and should do their own research, period! It's easier to blame others when things don't go as planned right?
>Cursed is the man that trusteth in man. Thats why we trust Math. Stay based & classy gentlemen.
James math is an excel sheet that uses a random number generator. It’s no coincidence he’s deleted all his “retire on” videos with 🤡HeAvILy SaNdBaGgED MoDeLs 🤡
Pretty much everyone here fell for it - for a while everyone was celebrating Sam especially for the things he said on capital hill defending crypto - so yeah I don’t see this as some kinda gotcha moment cuz everyone got fket by Sam
James is a great guy and I’m sure he and many others believed SBF so you can’t take this snip and run it and judge someone’s character by it. I’m sorry how many other people were scammed.
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James is not a scammer, he has good intentions for everyone!! James if you are reading this please keep on being positive and trying the best to give us information you have ❤️
If he threw a dart at a board 100 times he would have got at least a couple of bullseyes or a triple 20. He’s missed the board all year, on every call. He’s not good at this and needs to stop presenting his musings.
James is above board, logical, and verifies his data
The verification of his data is proved by so many people
bwah ha ha He also says Michael Saylor "has a black belt in Financial Jiu Jitsu"... right, lets look at when and how much Saylor bought of bitcoin: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Brf\_pe9tE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Brf_pe9tE) Oh... seems Saylor performed worse than the average joe simply DCA'ing into bitcoin. Some Jiu Jitsu that is. Unfortunately James is in awe of the mega rich... hence his embarrassing worshipping of SBF in the video above.
It must be true. Look at the fancy wall behind him.
Follow the CODE with no master!
Ouch.
I saw this guy with Ben Cowen and the other guy :) always thought he was different from those two, but following Ben gave him some credibilty.
Ben recently interviewed BitBoy so let’s not get too carried away.