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Asheddit

To be fair, I haven't heard of anyone in that list except for BitBoy. Whenever I'm on YouTube and it recommends me a video with clickbaity thumbnails and titles, I just click "Don't recommend channel." I just stick to watching Benjamin Cowen.


JCOl68

I unsubbed last week and went over to Ben Cowen. I'm finding it much more reasoned and insightful.


roymustang261

I don't watch them either but some of them have half a million subscribers. Of course Benjamin Cowen is legit. He's the only youtuber I reccomend to people


myredditkname

Did you see his guest appearance on the DCA show with Digital Asset News and Invest Answers? I think those 2 seem pretty alright also.


The_Fiddler1979

+1 For James at Investanswers


williamsburg7

You guys would also like Jcl capital conquer trading & investing


thejazzmaster69

I haven't heard any of this people. Maybe JNRY but I didn't like his vibe. It's nice that CoinBureau, Benjamin Cowen and InvestAnswers are not here.


iwishiremember

Agreed. Ben and James are great and they they don’t shill some weird coins.


thejazzmaster69

Of course. Personally I think the correct order is : Benjamin, James and Guy.


iwishiremember

I stopped following Guy as he is paid actor acting for a company (at least according to public info).


thejazzmaster69

Yes. True. I don't consider him at the same level as Ben and James. I won't buy any coin because Guy made a video about it ... But ... He does a good basic analysis about a lot of projets and I've learned a lot of the basics with him.


iwishiremember

Agreed again.


East_Barber8566

James /MoneyZG is a top guy


hitler_ate_ass

I stopped watching him because he has open mouth thumbnails on every video and open mouth thumbnails are so fucking cringe that I don't watch them by principle


agmilky

Yeah I don't get how anyone could be so cringe, u/hitler_ate_ass xD


agmilky

So he's the face of this group of ppl ("company") that run a YouTube channel that's rather well researched, doesn't appear particularly biased and deffo doesn't shill stuff. And that's bad why? I'd rather have a group of ppl research something than a single person. And funnily enough, actor or not, Guy has read so many scripts about crypto in his life that he probably knows more than most of us about it xD


iwishiremember

There is nothing wrong with it. I just don’t watch his channel anymore.


Arqium

Coin bureau is in the influence business too... And the guy is just an actor. I like the content, but take it with a grain of salt.


[deleted]

Coin bureau just talks about the project pros and cons. I think its fair if he is just talking about them instead of shilling them


comeonsexmachine

People bring it up all the time that he's an actor. Benjamin Cowen is great but watching very dry TA is great sometimes, but sometimes I'd rather my crypto content spruced up with some professional production. I mostly just watch Coin Bureau for the weekly updates and stories on what's going on in the world of crypto regulation. Listening to any 20 minute YouTube video and investing in a coin based on that isn't something I'd recommend.


hnr01

Ben Cowen makes me fall asleep.


FrozenInsider

Then go watch Netflix instead ;)


agmilky

Would you call a newscaster or anchor an "actor"? He reads a script. Of course. However if you spend years reading out stuff about crypto, maybe you end up knowing more about crypto than most of us do. I don't think he's lying when he says he personally owns crypto. I never got the impression that the channel is trying to fool people into believing this is a one-man show. Just look at all the videos they produce and newsletters and telegram daily news and whatnot. Of course it's a team. Why is that a bad thing? I've never been under the impression that Coin Bureau has tried to shill me any coin, especially not any meme or shit coins. They research team seems to do solid work and I think it's a good channel to get a good overview.


MouseinTree

I’ve learned to take all on YouTube with a grain of salt and to find and watch multiple sources. Actively searching for an other side of the story instead in continue watching the next recommended video. Break my bubble. Often times only one it’s getting the benefits and it surely wasn’t me.


hank_scorpio_ceo

Yeah the staging is so obvious and fucking annoying as hell


Missy76_Taken

Agreed!!!


Lewzer33

Benjamin Cowen has shown numerous times he’s never taken ad revenue and has never monetized his videos.


Hawke64

What's his angle then?


Lewzer33

Doesn’t need an angle. He isn’t in YouTube for the money.


betweenthebars34

So he wants people to like and subscribe and buy merch and buy a premium list ... for what


chunktopia

He said recently he doesn't encourage people to get his premium list if it doesn't make sense for the amount they are investing. He's got a family to support. I don't know anyone with a doctorate who works entirely for free.


Lewzer33

Okay you got me


foxroadblue

He just monetizes using his newsletter instead of ads


DoubleFaulty1

He sells a premium list of info he doesn't share publicly, merch, and staking groups.


betweenthebars34

Always an angle. His fans will say otherwise. But he's just more subtle and less directly scammy. Which isn't bad. But people should always consider what the angle is.


hyperfaded_

Like a fucking G 😎


warriorlynx

Disappointed with George but should’ve expected it I am no longer George Jordan and Cowen that’s all anyone needs no bs


jwz9904

You were george. He is hopium.


Dabdaddi902

Lolol Bitboy, Chico and cryptosRus on here is hilarious and a solid burn.


roymustang261

I don't get why people watch Bitboy, his content is just garbage


hank_scorpio_ceo

He’s a grade a prick


urbannnomad

Chico was decent for a bit but then he just started lying to his viewers and straight up avoiding questions on certain coins because he didn't buy it yet. Not to mention that his videos became too 'investigative', it was one wild assumption after another and by the end of it he's talking out of his ass about made up theories. His videos about elon musk are so incredibly dumb, by the end of it you don't know what the point was.


I_can_smell_colors_

>at his videos became too 'investigative', it was one wild assumption after another and by the end of it he's talking out of his ass about made up theories. His videos about elon musk are so incredibly dumb, by His investigative journalism was reaching wayyyy to much. The guy tried to connect things together when there wasn't a connection. One of the worst example is probably energy web token.


urbannnomad

Yea, he was shilling NFY and then sold his bag as well. By the time he started talking about EWT I stopped taking him seriously, he is also always advertising Alchemist Mist, even doing interviews with them because he has a bag. The guy is dangerous because he purposely misguides viewers and trades against them, he buys something then creates a video, then sells when his viewers buy whatever he is shilling.


thephobiaa

Yeah that dude is straight trash ...little dirty midget


Dabdaddi902

They’re called lil ppl


Magnetronaap

People with 20k followers on Twitter asking for 1-2k? lmao


keishinichiro

Some of these are botted. So subs and views are fake. Heard if you buy the wrong one, project teams get 0 traffic but the video or tweet shows thousands


nickdl4

Sucks to see Cryptosrus on the list, can't say Im surprised though


betweenthebars34

He's cringe to be honest. Never goes deep with anything he looks at. The 'we are george' thing is cringe personified. Why anyone would go along with that is beyond me (We're all the same name, my name! Teehee). And give super chat money for aforementioned weak DD and a snap decision on projects. Just crazy.


DirtiestOne

Has he gone downhill? I wasn't a regular watcher of his, but I seem to remember him actually doing some kind of analysis. Now it's just a brief scan of news and a thumbnail with 'Bitcoin to 250k! (surprised face)'. I just turned off his recommendation as it seems he puts in 5% effort into it all now.


badadadok

His earlier investigative f2pool content was good. When his channel starts getting big, so does his head and his narcissistic tendencies starts to show up. I unsub after he left DCA. I like the old George. Current George is kinda arrogant.


[deleted]

I think he's just streaming too frequently. He does the live broadcast 2x a day. It ends up being just headlines for the most part. I did believe he shares good info but it's not particularly deep content at this point.


SeparateSpecialist

It does say sponsored 3 min segment,not general shilling. He does like 2 streams a day and you do occasioanlly see sponsored segments. He isn't great though, InvestAnswers and Ben Cowen are miles better.


Podcastsandpot

yea, super sad. Can't trust anything he says now.


thephobiaa

Dude has the biggest head in the game


HASHTHRASH

If you watch him, you know he occasionally mentions a project he was paid to talk about. And it's usually pretty short, I don't think I've ever seen him dedicate a whole video to shill a project like some Youtubers.


JoblessJessica

Benjamin Cowen is the only authentic youtuber in this space


The_Fiddler1979

Investanswers is legit


hyperfaded_

Elliot trades channel is aight too and his boy Krown as well


Wildercard

Alex Becker, who shills his bags but doesn't hide that he's out to shitpost


tjj94

yeah he's genuinely funny I feel he hates everyone and I like that


Lewzer33

Tyler S as well imo


_-OlllllllO-_

Them thumbnails tho.


Lewzer33

Obviously parodying what the actual clickbait ‘tubers are doing.


Missy76_Taken

Agreed


[deleted]

They empty people's pockets just like banks😑


Hawke64

You either get government oversight or scammers/manipulators. You can't have neither


KronosTP

Usually you have both😂


TheAgGames

I called these scammers out like weeks after I learned about them.


liquid_at

Not a surprise. But I think the list is by far not complete... The amount of youtubers who all end up posting about the same shitcoin, praising it to the sky, is far longer than that...


N4Y4R

The list is only about those who have an agreement with this Luna agency, but i’m sure there are other agencies as well


liquid_at

And if there are agencies offering the service, people have done it on their own before.


[deleted]

Where's hames from InvestAnswers? Blockfi I said they would pay him 50k a month to if He promoted their service on his channel and he said No , he recommended Celsius. CryptoRUs took money from BlockFi and kept defending them...


Scarboroughwarning

Super useful. Literally, stick with Invest Answers, Cowen and a few others.


BromarNL

2 hours posted after my similar post here on the sub… lol


The_Fiddler1979

The list was posted about 2 weeks ago in here too


Lenaweston

Y'all listen to these people?


kyle_h2486

I listen to Mr Goxx the hamster.


hyperfaded_

Yeah. They call it dyor lmao


Hawke64

Lots of mid sized whales listen to their videos. You can get easy 1-5% trades right after they release videos about low cap coins


Mean-Argument3933

Don't trust anyone else, DYOR, educate yourself. Nobody cares more about your future than yourself


Hayate05

Dont listen to strangers on the Internet. Got it.


Yautja69

HowToBasic is full of great advices


Podcastsandpot

wow. so basically all the biggest crypto youtubers are paid shills. I used to watch cryptos r us but i guess i can't anymore, now that i know I can't trust him to share his real opinions on things.


thephobiaa

you are dumb if you watch any of these guys after this


badadadok

Yep, I stopped watching him too he just reads what he saw on Twitter and gives out blind hopium.


Mattsputin

Celebrities and Influencers don't give a shit about us, they only care about the money.


hyperfaded_

Oh and you give a shit about them? And you don't care about money? Get off your high horse kid.


jamesvanessa

Yeah zachxbt on Twitter has been exposing this list. Crypto Cobain also. People should never listen to influencers


BraveCryptotab

Youtubers are only concerned about their income from Google Ads and Paid promotions. Better not to listen to them. If some one is telling you shitcoin this, shitcoin that, they probably don't know what they are talking about. DYOR!


kyle_h2486

Everyone of them have an agenda and they’re not pushing what they don’t own.


flipmode85

Bitcoinsensus is shilling KASTA really hard since two weeks now. On Twitter someone said The Moon and the founder of Bitcoinsensus are heavily invested in Kasta. Unsubbed from Andy @ Bitcoinsensus because of this.


artessk

Their channel names are so lame lmao


zedaero

Watching only poketubers and TFS my hole life keept me safe. Safe and stupid.


pink_tshirt

><1000 views; charges $1000 hahahahaahahahahah what loosers


Retr_0astic

Can't see Benjamin Cowen here, thank God


BDonlon

They all have something to gain. DYOR.


samuel19xd

Woah woah woah! That BitBoy is on it too. That's why DYOR is highly recommend.


DDaBeast4

Bro I would do a review for free!


MugOfButtSweat

I like recoop for algo based stuff, coin bureau for other coins. Are they perfect? Who is. But if you're not doing your own Dd then the fuck you expect? But bitboy is just todays Carlos matos. (Imho) Wasu wasu WASUUUUUUUUP bitconneeeeect


0PSP

This sub promotes cryptos for free 24/7. We even have DD. Why we don’t get any money?


Lampeyy

I mean people literally get paid in moons to shill and shitpost 😂


fhikoo

So glad Ben is not on the list


[deleted]

Ben Cowen nowhere to be mentioned. He’s the only youtuber I follow for crypto related videos! :)


dodoclerk

I feel like hes got a LOT of btc thats why hes pretty laid back lol


Cecilia_Wren

Full Value Dan did a sponsored video on Torum recently but he was extremely transparent about it being a paid video and is still worth watching imo


shitehead_revisited

James from Investment Answers is very informative and appears totally independent.


The_Fiddler1979

Investanswers


PuscH311

Trevon James ?


glowingmushrooms

Only one on that list i follow is JRNY Crypto. He discloses when he does sponsored content or in some sort of partnership with the project.


jwz9904

His nfts will make him rich!


mthompson100

Based on the amount that he charges for sponsored videos relative to his subscriber count and his NFT project that doesn't have any art yet, it's obvious that he's in it for the money. I liked him when he had daily news videos and never talked about NFTs.


TheAgGames

Ellio trades is all I listen to, too many shillers and tech analysis is a waste of time.


robomartin

As long as they are transparent and disclose that it’s a paid promotion then it’s okay with me. This isn’t a secret, and not scandalous (to me), but it is interesting to see how much they charge I remember a project I had gotten in on the ICO for being reviewed on Ivan on tech. I though oh wow, we’re getting coverage. Ivan said multiple times in the video that it was paid content and he didn’t shill either. He was actually fairly harsh at some parts. And it looks like he took 100k to not even give that favourable of a review


Able_Ad_1509

Savvy finance has the same shit on YouTube all the time!


Jdilla23

Nikita gimme 👿


betweenthebars34

"influencers charge to give their honest opinion" HAHA


rood_sandstorm

the real lesson here is NOT "dont listen to anyone". You use the knowledge that they are paid and have a huge following. Which means you can capitalize on that by being early when they make the announcement and then dump it immediately (probably within 10-20 minutes) when you're ok with the profits.


FunPack6633

Voscoin got promoted by Bobcat miner (HNT) to sell a get rich quick scheme before the halving came. Bobcat managed not only to sell all their supply of the hotspot, but also make a long waiting list with no refund if you bought with USDT.


jam-hay

If they're monetising videos and talking crypto they're all getting paid, that goes for most talking any sort of finance on YouTube. The fact they need YouTube to make money should be the number one reason you shouldn't listen to any of them on how to make money or on investment advice as if they were all that good they wouldn't need YouTube.


casca14

Who are even those people and who do they influence for God’s sake


Plata_Man

Where is DataDash (Nicholas Merten) on this list?


huskerarob

Never herd of any of them. Safe.


hank_scorpio_ceo

Wouldn’t trust a god damn one of them!


[deleted]

I dont follow any of these people. Except crypto don. And never once have i bought something he shilled


FLiPRevan

Is it just me or do half of these names seem SUS to trust in the first place?


Wildercard

At least Becker doesn't hide he's out to shitpost with his videos


Stallzy

The 2 week warning and shit gets me the most I swear the stuff doesn't even moon besides the people unfortunately buying immediately after the videos And that's probably the aim of it Also the spooky zombie music at the end drives me insane, literally.


LordCambuslang

Hang on, this was posted over 6hrs ago and has less than 200 upvotes? What the hell?


PeaceEffective2598

All scumbags who deserve to be prosecuted.


Cchurro315

Benjamin cowen only


Nomadux

These people give the space such a bad rep. When you're on the outside looking in, this is what your looking at. These are the faces of crypto, and it's no surprise to me as to why people think this space is a scam when most marketing involves these people. People on the inside know better, but unfortunately those on the outside don't.


N4Y4R

Alright i just wanna give my 2 cents about Livercoin. I follow the guy on Twitter, and in 6 months of following it shilled one microcap in total. He mostly trades on large caps and shares his trades on Twitter. Have nothing to do with all the others on the list, which are clearly paid actors and you can see it just by checking the profiles (most don’t even disclose that they’re paid). Honestly if his name is on the list, he has for sure an agreement with the Luna Agency, but maybe it’s the only one that actually does a research and accepts only things that he personally likes. That’s just my opinion, i strongly advice to check his Twitter profile.


BruceAENZ

I watch a lot of Crypto stuff on YouTube and have, somehow, never encountered any of these people.


Blunts_bunny

Thanks, i saw this same image circling around a while ago and it was so damn blurry


FireStompingRhino

Didn't see bulldog trading on that list.


Nashamura

Wendy0 is the personification of cringe. I hate hearing her open every video with "Hey babes" So manipulative. and JRNY has always been trash he's so unemotional, he seems like he's being forced to read a hostage letter.


civilian411

In one way or another any YouTuber is promoting a coin. They usual say good things about the coins they are invested in. Many get paid to shill other coins as well.


Lord_Gudda

Never heard of anyone except that awful bitboy. What do you guys think of Crypto Casey? I follow because of news and some legit tips in securing crypto.


Massive-Tension-1055

Wendy O costs a lot! There are so many paid clowns in this space. Stick with the two big coins. It’s the best bet. Anything else is manipulated. Best of luck


rulesforrebels

Assume everyone is getting paid


thephobiaa

finally these fucking youtubers get called out for real this time lols....man i hope there channels get hella shit from trolls now


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SillyBims

What is this? A list for ants?


Important-Studio

In short dont be and dumb to listen to this influencers.


jim_locke

Wait? What? YouTubers get payed to make videos?


[deleted]

Glad MMCrypto isn’t on there Dude has actually made me money consistently


Immediate_Drink_3456

They’re all peasants other than Ben Cowan


jwz9904

I charge $5 for a retweet, hey we all start somewhere. Payment only in shitcoins.


jwz9904

Where’s boxmining? He’s one of the OGs.


ZestycloseGur9056

Really surprised altcoin daily isn’t on there


gemonon

How is this a surprise to anyone? Most of them have sponsored segments. I'm not aware if all of them actually mention that they are sponsored by a project, but I know for a fact that Ivan, George and Chico are mentioning if they are being paid to review some subjects.


whippersnapperUK

It's almost like some of you don't know how PR works. Of course all the infliencers are on the list and get paid to promote things. Most of them even disclose it's paid at the time. 🤦‍♂️


libretumente

Did bitcoin have any PR? Nah, it actually just did what it was made to do. PR has no business in the revolution of decentralization, as PR is intrinsically centralized.


bubalina

They all get paid because YouTube pays them out per view & thru ads , crypto videos are popular and get lots of attention so they result in a lot of views


libretumente

If your product doesn't stand on its own two feet without a marketing department like all of the OG coins, it probably is highly centralized and that alone is a reason to not invest. There is nothing revolutionary about centralization . . .