Comments by "Kevin Street" (@Kevin_Street) on "Coffeezilla" channel.

  1. "Once you get that reputation it sticks." Exactly. The audience will slowly leave when he's labeled as "not reliable," but Tran seems to think the opposite will happen.
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  2. Yeah, there are no good guys in this story. Law enforcement in Ontario needs to step up and start doing real investigations of these scammers. Put guys like Pleterski and Safranko in prison, and resdistribute their assets to their victims. Make examples out of them so others won't be tempted to do the same.
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  3. You're not part of the problem, Coffeezilla. Yes, you're entertaining us by showcasing idiots, but it serves a useful purpose. It took me about a year to figure out your channel, but I understand it now: you're like an immune system. By exposing these people to your audience you're immunizing us to their patter and promises. A Coffezilla viewer might not ever be duped by the Island Boys, but someone else who looks and sounds more respectable might tempt us in different circumstances. But then we'd stop and think, how different is this guy from the Island Boys? And with the realization they're exactly the same all their power to tempt us goes away. So far you've immunized about 855 thousand people, and soon it'll be a million. That really adds up to a substantial positive effect on society. Keep doing your thing, 'zilla. We're better off because of it.
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  4. Well done, Coffeezilla. A very effective skewering of the latest fake guru. I like how you took time to show any current or future Huster's U students who may be watching why joining that school is a bad idea.
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  5. I feel like we're going to get a video on the destruction of Binance in about six months. Right now it's all sharks stranded because the tide went out, eating each other.
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  6. How can that be legal?
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  7.  @thephilosopher7173  No, he literally couldn't sell his tokens. No one could because the code only allowed purchases.
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  8. I think Coffeezilla's real passion is going after fake gurus, but he's already done videos on most of them. NFTs are such a transparent scam they're easy to expose, but more new ones keep popping up every day. Doing a lot of NFT videos must feel like playing that old Whac-A-Mole game.
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  9. You are so right. This channel is kind of amazing. You shine a light on things that we all suspect, but no one talks about.
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  10.  @sylvesterdivine9292  Exactly. He's trying very hard to present an explanation that doesn't make him guilty of anything except being dumb.
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  11. I wonder about Masterworks. The art market is different from crypto though. It's driven by money launderers and tax dodging billionaires. The speculators are barely a fly speck compared to them.
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  12. Go Coffee go!!! You pinned him down on "the minimum viable fraud" by asking tough questions and not letting him direct the conversation away into abstractions! That was awesome.
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  13. I remember a similar debate back when Edward Snowden revealed the NSA has back doors built into just about every operating system and communications technology sold in America. The arguments were the same: the government needs access to enforce the law, perfect encryption will just facilitate crime and terrorism. People didn't seem to like that much, but then we all forgot about it. If someone made a service like Tornado Cash that kept logs of where the money went, would that satisfy governments? And would anyone use it?
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  14. What I want to know is where these guys got eight hundred million dollars to start with. Or was that money all credit and promises too? Maybe the Staples Center got ripped off along with the customers?
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  15. I love the last part of the video where Coffeezilla shares how the scammers make him mad because they face no consequences, and Rogan compliments him on his authenticity - but Coffee doesn't hear the compliment because he's still mad and has more to say! In that moment I could totally see him testifying before congress or at the trial of a scammer.
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  16. I'm not sure this is a scam. Technically it's just a terrible business model. But from the perspective of the person who invests and loses their money the result is the same.
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  17.  @ww3662  In CoffeeZilla's case those are the same thing. The "greater cause" is to stop scammers from cheating people, and good content is the sensational rise and fall of scammers like Bankman Fried. The more people learn about him, the less chance there is they'll be scammed by the next guy.
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  18. Exactly! Universe Sandbox and Space Engine. Real games developed by real people who could always use more sales. I think Space Engine was made by one guy.
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  19. I just tattoo it on the back of my hand.
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  20. I think the piece was meant to be a freakshow. He wasn't really interested in the utility, they were just there so the audience could point and laugh.
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  21. Too bad you won't.
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  22.  @maksskill6715  So close to 69,690%.
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  23. Well done, Coffee! You've conducted a terrific investigation here, laying out all the facts involved. Not opinions or clickbait, but facts backed up with evidence. The hints about Part Three are very ominous, but I'm certain you wouldn't have gone this far if there was an actual risk to your family. This Ted Safranko guy looks like he's nothing but a talker. Most scammers are.
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  24. Wow. Anybody who's been following your videos understands what happened with FTX, and who Sam Bankman Fried really is. (A con artist.) But the mainstream view is apparently still really confused. Michael Lewis seems to have fallen in love with his subject, to the point where he can't really condemn the guy even after a multi-billion dollar fraud. If Bankman Fried had burned his money to spend time with Tom Brady, Lewis might have a different opinion.
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  25. Oh, come on. Who doesn't enjoy a vigorous eyeball massage? Seriously though, the description says that it uses electrical current (EMS) to contract the muscles around the eyes. That's some Clockwork Orange shit.
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  26. It's not terrible at all, there are millions of guys that look like that. The only difference is you can grow your hair back again.
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  27. The idea behind crypto is to find a way to replace trust with mathematics. Supposedly we wouldn't need to trust banks and governments because the system would police itself. But they still haven't found that perfect trustless system.
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  28. Straight through the center of the Earth, and then to the Moon!
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  29. The Softbank Dog commercials have been continuing for years and are still hilarious. Especially if you never intend to use Softbank.
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  30. You grandstand just enough, Coffee. It's the perfect amount.
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  31. Ah, Google settings. They should just call them Google suggestions, because they have a way of changing every time the gnomes behind the scenes do a big software upgrade.
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  32. The Ontario Securities Commission. Kind of like a state government agency in the US.
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  33. Well done! I hope some of Dillon's fans click on the website and learn not to trust him in money matters.
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  34. What a load of BS. This lawsuit is ridiculous, and a really scummy move by Logan Paul.
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  35. Not Coffeezilla! He's the one guy I trust! Well, him and that Voidzilla guy. They both seem pretty solid.
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  36. Well, I can still see dislikes as of Nov 12 at 5:30 PM. So maybe they haven't gone through with it? Hope so.
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  37. This is just self promotion - but charity, and in particular donations to Africa, is an area where technology could help. Millions of people who work in developed countries and send remittances to their families back home could use a way to transfer money that doesn't involve enormous fees. Then there's the problem of getting on a blacklist of some kind. Pleasant Green was employing people in Nigeria to give them an alternative to scamming, when he was abruptly dropped by Western Union because they flagged his frequent money transfers. I think he worked it out somehow, but that shows some of the problems African charities face.
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  38. Notice me, senpai! Make my schemes come true!
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  39. What a story! It's a crazy chain of events set off by the run on the FTX token. Alameda Research sounds like the frat from Animal House (dated reference, I know), except instead of being broke college kids they had billions in loans that FTX customers didn't even know they'd given them. And these people were supposed to be crypto geniuses or something. Imagine becoming a billionaire, testifying before Congress, losing it all and then going on the run to Argentina before the age of 31.
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  40. Rugpull Rabbits to the Moon!
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  41. Her husband is doing billion dollar grifts with his SPAC. Basically he created an investment vehicle that allows early investors to take advantage of later investors by selling the stock short. When the stock goes down in price (as it is almost guaranteed to do) the early investors will make a profit off people who bought it later. It's being investigated by the SEC.
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  42. All right I subbed. You twisted my arm.
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  43.  @stevel.3903  You make a really good point there. When there's no huge outside force controlling a currency (like a government) that currency will always be vulnerable to whomever owns a large amount of it. In this case tho it seems like the opposite. Terraform Labs and their deep pocketed friends have been trying to keep UST pegged, but the market is having none of it.
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