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Have you ever heard about the Eight Division World champion Manny Pacquiao who currently beats Lucas Matthysse in Kuala Lampur. I've heard he is one of the notable investor of GCOX ( see https://gcox.com/ ) . Manny Pacquiao is popular in the Philippines and even around the world. What do you think this crypto-promotion/exposure will impact the mass adoption. Do you think this has an effect or just my illusion?

Oh is he?

I also got rumors saying Manny Pacquiao would not only be investing on cryptocurrencies but is planning on making a coin for himself! I don't know the details of the coin and the legitimacy of what i've said. But i think it's all promotions and profits once again (aren't we all?).

It will have an effect on the industry and the market, when someone is promoting that kind of thing and that someone is really famous, there will always be an impact on what he is promoting and doing, that is common sense and I know that it is true here in the market! That is my opinion though! :)

He was getting paid to promote the ico but it can't be trusted and i should remain you about centra which has been paying myweather to promote their such as a scam ico. I guess that's only the marketing and no more. Who knows if he has been investing on it or not? You should not believe it because he was obviously getting paid.

Well public figure is the most effective way to promot crypto to mainstream user. Manny Pacquiao should just be the start, if more celebrities joining crypto (though it is not certainly affect the price) but it will attract more people.

yes, I have heard of the coin he plans on creating. It’s said to be called the Pac Coin. He has been chosen to be an ambassador of a global crypto exchange where other celebrities can create, enlist and trade their own tokens. I think he made this move more for public image and not for profits since he’s already stinking rich. He’s already the second richest athlete in the world, just next to his rival Floyd Mayweather.

The personality of certain celebrities alone is enough to attract other investors to the industry.The industry needs personalities like this to help push and attract more invstors into cryptocurrency that will eventually lead to globalization of cryptocurrency throughout the world .the fans of such people will begin to see the potentials in here and many will like to follow their celebs.

Thanks for your post! I feel as excited as you! The graphic says it all Global Crypto Offering Exchange, on its website, listed Pacquiao as a "notable private investor." (http://news.abs-cbn.com/business/04/05/18/coming-soon-from-manny-pacquiao-pac-coins) and there will be more content that we will find in the next days about GCOX and Manny Pacquiao. Crypto did it have joined the Stars of Sport and the Show, making a great movement.

If he really invest in that coin then i think it will be big. He is also one of the biggest star in boxing though he is getting old now but i heard that he is really rich and he can support the project

There were already many examples when famous people advertised fraudulent projects, not even knowing that the organizers of the project will be lost with the collected money.

I am really not sure how to react at that point. I mean there are already people in big finance who already expressed their support in cryptocurrency and has already invested some money on it. But if that will happen then I think that is a big boost in the popularity of Cryptocurrency but of course not enough to boost prices higher. What we need are new players in the market not promo girls for marketing purposes.

yes, you're right
but there is no guarantee if the project will be succed in the future
because the key is on the main dev team, they should be serious in developments

Getting paid while promoting is also a common sense. About Centra, it was far from GCOX where Manny Pacquiao invested. GCOX secure the SEC compliant ahead of time to clear things out. What was paid for in advertising GCOX was transparently declared in legal papers - unlike Centra who disclose the amount paid to get rid from TAX and liabilities.

Your answer is far from my question. That is why DYOR exist, because you shouldn't rely your investment portfolio to others.

Yes, thats true, our filipino pride manny pacquaio is really one of thr biggest investor of gcox project. Take a look back at the championship fight of those boxer. Their boxing ring had full of gcox advertisement. More photo taken and always hace gcox at the background. Maybe this is a good invesent, very very less risk

#PINOY

Just keep in mind the guy who blasted Manny out (Floyd Mayweather) was shown in posts hyping up the Centra card if I'm not mistaken.  These celebrities are all just being paid so take what they hype with a huge grain of salt.

I've watched the fight and it's on the four sides of the ring
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Not an illusion, it really has effect.

Well, If something like this popular like Manny Pacquaio that will promote and advertise it only means that the coin is very legit and its worth the invest. Maybe its time for celebrities or the crypto to consider celebrities in promoting their coins.

Looks like another coin for exchange, recently almost hundreds of exchanges are being introduced in the market every month which is making competition among exchanges really tough because all of them will be fighting for same customers/traders. But this has some good and bad sides, good side is that traders can diversify risk by trading on multiple platform but bad side is that if any of the exchange will have poor security than it is quite likely to get hacked which might cause another panic on the market.

Celebrity will promote anything for money, I think Manny have also got some token for free rather than real investment in return for promoting them.  ;)

I think this is just a scam. First thing is first Mayweather did promo for some shitcoin and I instantly knew that he has no clue what is going on and that he is very well paid to make that advertisment. beware of celebrities promoting stuff because they are just paid and you will get scammed.

Then it will have a good impact on it and it will earn more investors because manny pacman is very famous in the world. I will gonna search about it to earn more information about the GCOX because it might give us profits.

It's only a promotion and I think if there's a impact in the people it's not like huge impact. Because it depends to that project if they successfully reach their goal for their project.

If you are not into sports then you should not be aware of that. But sport lovers specially boxing is already into it.

You can also look at other sports personalities who have been promoting crypto as well: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3199334.0

I think it has a impact because we all know that sports figures has a lot of following. So a simple tweet might persuade others to join and invest their money on it.

Maybe if this gonna be happening, I'm sure it will give a big help to get the confidence of all the investors to invest again, such known prominent individuals will endorse about crypto is a good thing but think first that this is not a new story it is happening already in the past that result in a great dismay to the investors.

Even if the 8 division world champion will promote an Ico it does not mean that the project will be popular , it depends in the investors of the cryptocurrency if they want to enter the ICO. We are aware about the project centra where the promoter is also a world champion in boxing and that is mayweather jr. but in the end the project turns into scam.

Many investors will think twice to invest because of the other incident that happen with the promotion of a well known boxer that turned into scam,hopefully it will not repeat it again.

I think he use to promote on Gcox paid to make GCOX all over the world and i think GCOX is the best one to invest on ICO it has a good exchange and can be a good one like just binance,kucoin and other exchanger.

I live in the Philippines, and there was this rumor from months ago that Manny Pacquiao is about to make his very own coin. But at that time, few days after the rumor, market went bearish and the rumor faded along with the Bull. Manny is very enthusiastic when it comes to cryptocurrency based on news and rumors I've heard compared to other celebrities here in the Philippines. In our country, Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin does not have that good of a reputation so majority of the population is misleaded but with Manny Pacquiao promoting the cryptocurrency himself, I'm sure many people will believe in the technology, it will definitely spark curiosity leading to many people research and knowing the knowledge and technology behind bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Hope this gets the market bigger and more stabe :)

Is there any reference material on this subject and it's possible constituents? The SEC has already warned to be wary of celebrity endorsed crypto related projects. Though he is a superb boxer and proud leader in his country, when it comes to the crypto scene, there are a lot of legal gray areas and uncertainties. If it turns out to be legit, then it sounds like great news, as it could turn out being quite successful.

Once you become popular and become honorable person in this world all things become possible and people  would  follow your fortune,therefore as Manny Pacquiao promotion in crypto coins and investor of GCOX exchange ,i thinks its will bring a great and massive impact into the world of cryptocurrency,and people believe this is a legit project because the people champ is a honorable and religious man,unlike those sentra coins thats promoted by mayweather is a fraud and many investor would loss that there capital.

Good news, i heard that news before the fight and it real. A lot of advertisement around the boxing gym and even before the fight there are logo of gcox behind. Look interesting project with high success rate. Not only made by pacquaio, there are more notable investor seen on the website. Biggest project

Don't know if Manny Pacquiao can help GCOX become a good exchange in the future or not but as I know Manny Pacquiao is not the first/only famous people promoted for ICO project/exchagne in this crypto world :D. As I know a Football club in English Premierleague or La liga also did that before :)).

I think for me Senator Pacquiao is a very popular so that it can help GCOX Exchange to be recognize of many people around the world. And I believe I will invest here to , because I trust Senator Manny and I will join him in his path. Like I join and follow him in his boxing careers.

It's just unfortunate that they do not seem to have a bounty campaign here on Bitcointalk and just rely on their advertising and word of the mouth, I check the volume and it's on a billion, now that's too much another electroneum in the making I guess.

Yes Manny Pacquiao has invested in GCOX.  He is very popular not only in the Philippines but in the world because he is professional boxer. His investment in crypto is a good way of promoting in public. Aside from being an athlete,  he owns already a lot of businesses.  And I am just glad that he believed in Crypto.

  Well it will be a great help to GCOX to promote their exchange considering that Manny Pacquiao is a very well known not only in the boxing world but also in politics, and besides Pacquiao is notable of being a god fearing and spreading the word of god, so there is no way that he will let the people fall into a trap, it gonna be a good news.

I think that their coin is  a good investment but i highly prefer to invest on bitcoins because most of the ph ico's are scam or they will not have an exchanger in the market sometimes.

Wow!
That is nice to hear it means he will be the owner of the coin, I am interested with that kind of investment. It means their is possibility to boom because Manny Pacquiao has the capacity to build a business that everyone possess too.

Yes, i saw it. Manny Pacquiao is promoting GCOX exchange but while he is popular in the Philippines, cryptocurrency has yet to gain ground on the country.

aside from boxing,the 8 division champion and the new wba welterweight champion has a great influence to everyone.Manny Pacquiao may attract people to invest for this project and maybe sooner or later,this project will grow.Manny will invest for this project that he knew will be profited.GCOX exchange will be known not just because of Manny Pacquiao but also of providing or creating profitable solutions for everyone.

Definitely it will give a great impact in this cryptocurrency world not only in the Philippines but worldwide.  We known Manny Pacquiao as a legend boxer but not only that he is also the existing Senator means a public servant ready to serve all mankind.  I do believe what will be the decision of our legend and senator will also be benefited by the people our him and also the public. So i am quite excited if that is real. 

Manny Pacquiao is so much popular, that's undeniably true. I never seen an ICO this big - big in the sense that they had made those famous celebrities part of this project. This will surely affect the ICO performance. I can also say that many sports fans are also into crypto so GCOX will not be left behind among all existing ICOs.

I also watched that fight,and i saw that  GCOX printed with capital letters on every side of the ring. Maybe,the filipino pride Manny Pacquiao was paid for it,but it will be a good sign for us. I think,this said popular boxer in the world will never accept an advertisements without a good purpose and benefits for people,most especially those who idolized him,and i also one of them.

|Hey, they a bounty campaign here. Just search GCOS bounty bitcointalk and it will appear.
They will be giving away 300k$ .You missed to verify that. They already have a lot of supporter in the forum even those who do not participate in the bounty campaign.

Gcox adopting cryptocurrency in entertainment and sport industries.  While increase artiste and celebrities popularity, each of them will launch their own altcoin.  Fans and supporter can support them by directly invest in their coin. 

I'm assure that Manny see the future prospects of GCOX. Else he won't invest and create his own coin with GCOX. 

Yes he id promoting his own coin

agree,its just classic celeb promote product marketing skills

I don't see it that Manny Pacquiao is promoting GCOX, it is GCOX that supports Manny. GCOX team is just using Manny as one of their props. Maybe i am wrong but that's how i look at it.

Do you have any proof that he's being paid for it ??or proof that its a scam??i heard its doing great ,and i invested quite a lot .Do show us the source or proof that it is !

Agree also introducing new ppl into crypto is a good thing

i guess you must a hard core fans of him to know so much details about him,i do agree with you since he's a country hero for philipine
and we all saw what happen in the latest match in malaysia.Its crazy

Agree its like a chain reaction and also everyone will get the benefit from it

I will only believe if I see Manny Pacquiao has a video that he had personally endorsing this GCOX exchange and I think this is just a publicity from the developer of GCOX which they use Manny for their personal interest. Well, if it's true then good to see Manny doing crypto investment.

Manny Pacquiao is a really great person, he was one of the very first big names that believed in the power of crypto and it's future. I hope more big names will come to the cryptosphere because these names will do a great good to the community.

Yeah I was on the group of GCOX in telegram then they are keep posting Pacquiao's fight . They just paid Manny for promoting it and also GCOX is one the sponsor of the fight of Manny .

I guess u are just someone full of shit that spam hatred around with no reason,do you have any solid proof that saying he is being paid ?

Agree,basically what  gcox doing is quite crazy in term of trying to do something one one else dare to do

In actual, Manny is really investing his hard cash on GCOX. same goes Jason Derulo, and Micheal Owen. not like some crypto paid some celebs to promote for them. from what i see is Partnership between celebs and GCOX is GCOX help to create their own token and celebs need to provide either content or service through the platform. I think this is legit.

perhaps what GCOX does is unorthodox like other coin. what they do is rising celebs popularity and do fan services by the expense of crypto.

I just learned this news, I responded to this news with great pleasure, Manny Pacquiao has a big name and is very famous in the Philippines and even the world, I think Pacquiao's interest and interest in developing Crypto will be very good for crypto development in the Philippines and in the world.

Agree but so far what i see there's only positive side of it
well hopefully everything goes great in the future

Is he really promoting the coin or he just invested in it? Either way, I think it wouldn't bring any effect on the coin because the whales are still on control of the prices and I think they don't really care if you are a famous person.

Agree ,i think not only in philippines.Manny's fans from all around the world as well.

There's actually no point following celebrity promotions, they're just being paid for their name, and I guess cryptocurrency is quite popular in the phillipines so it's a great move on their behalf. I don't think I've ever actually seen a celebrity behind a cryptocurrency directly, rather than just being a paid face.

Yup this is one of the reason i invested in gcox ,but i think we should also think about the technical part

more like celebrity earning through crypto.

Yes, they are paid for their name. But thats their asset. think of this, you can reach any celebs listed through GCOX, and pay in crypto. back then when you can't even have a celebs to join you a dinner even you are millionaires.

now we just see whats celebrities can offer on top of their name. from there we can see how much value a celeb can be.

bro i think you should study more about this gcox ,i think u misunderstand a lot stuff about it

Now that is someone that really study alot ,agree with you

Add on malaysia and philipine prime minister was there as well

+1sport fans for manny !
basically sportsman think stuff more focus than bs around tweeter or social media

A lot of advertisement around the boxing gym and even before the fight there are logo of gcox behind. Look interesting project with high success rate. Not only made by pacquaio, there are more notable investor seen on the website.

A high profile personality will surely bring the hype into anything that needs promotion. Manny Pacquiao will surely have an impact on the GCOX promotion as he is very well known worldwide. Let's just see how effective Pacman will be in pushing GCOX.

i do agree what you say ,but i have this feeling that letting me know this is not scam
Well as a member of crypto investor hopefully things be great gcox

i see this one when he fight with matthysse last time pacquiao promoted GCOX. and for me it could attract investors to invest in this ICO token because of it pacquiao showing to the world that GCOX is a legit one because of his endorsement to the project. investors will attract also to this one because of its superstar endorser and it could really help the team and the project to become successful.

This is a good marketing strategy to introduce exchange by using well-known figure public figures. It is expected that the promotion will make people use the exchange when making crypto transactions.

If I'm not mistaken, there used to be such a project Centra it was also advertised by very serious stars, what is now with this project? I think that PR is a very important thing just for the fees nothing more, now the market is just beginning to breathe again, let's wait.

      Sorry I was not able to read the  news or even heard a rumors but if this is true , It can help a lot to bounch back for this crypto to be more popular again since Manny Pacqiuao is very famous to asia or even in the U.S. , and this is very possible because Manny is an investor of cryptocurrency.

I think for me Senator Pacquiao is a very popular so that it can help GCOX Exchange to be recognize of many people around the world  8) 8) 8)

You can expect a slight positive effect and adoption from big time investors because of the endorsement from that popular boxer. After all, he have a good reputation all over the world and have a good heart. Unfortunately, this is nothing new with Manny because he already entered numerous numbers of businesses in sports, politics, religions and now, an ICO investor. I hope that he is aware with those risk of becoming a crypto investor.

He just doing bounty hunting just like many of us here in this forum but I think he received payment in advance.  Because he is a well-known boxer he will get massive publicity from the media and it is good to promote the cryptocurrency. 

Not sure about that. Remember centra used the same method as cgox and then what has already happened with it? it has turned into a scam project and founder of centra has already arrested by US SEC. I think that you must not call that as a good thing.

Oh please! This is just another celebrity stunt promo to be able to capture the attention of some gullible ones that just assume that everything they follow as long as it is attached to a celebrity of their choice makes it worthwhile.

Maybe you should ask those who invested into CTR last year just because Floyd May weather was used for publicity stunts. Celebrity endorsement should never be a reason anyone should be investing in a project, but proper diligence is all that is necessary.

I don't think its the same CTR promote by Floyd May,Gcox is an exchange and manny promoting he's own crypto in gcox
i suggest you head to their official and study a bit rather than bombard negativity with zero knowledge about it

Manny Pacquiao is a huge influencer. A celebrity integrating the blockchain world into the real world would be huge and fans would surely adopt into buying celebrity crypto given that the coin itself is backed up by a real value. If you check out Idol Network, it is similar to GCOX focussing on celebrities, fans AND even entertainment companies. https://www.idol.network

I think we should be open minded for any possibility in crypto ,in other words crypto haven't reach mature period yet.What i studied about gcox its totally different from others and cceleb is not promoting but building their own cypto with gcox.Is not same like previous  CTR or so on

i think you got the wrong idea about GCOX. Pacqiaou is making his own coin on top of GCOX platform. same goes to the rest of the celebrities partner with GCOX. its NOT endorsement like Mayweather do to CTR.

another big difference is Pacqiaou invested in GCOX and make his own coin with real hard cash. its not gimmick, its not public stunts, Its totally different from others.

you may read up the whitepaper to confirm it.

Famous and accomplished people like him have a lot of fanatics, and fans always imitate what his idol did, including what he promoted. This will affect the industry and the market, when someone promotes such a thing and that someone is truly famous, there will always be an impact on what he promotes and does, it is common sense and I know that it is right here on the market! That's my opinion!

No point at all, I still wonder why people still pay so much attention on the endorsement by celebrities anyway after some projects have ended up as scams and out of the market, even despite celebrity endorsements.

In fact, in cases like this, I tend to question the product or project even the more, as I feel the team is trying a whole lot to make an impression. Like you said, they are just some paid face, have nothing to lose, and while some are busy wallowing in their losses, they are busy making money endorsing whatever.

You should not thank everyone with separate post but you must try all of your posts into one like this post. Post after post by same person will be marked by "double post" which may land you into temporary ban. Otherwise thank one person and wait for another one writing here. Better one is consolidating all your posts into one post.

Can you give me a little insight about what's the purpose of him try to create his own shitcoin? Or it will be the same as what have done by madure with its crap petro currency. I have not yet seen any clue about the purpose of that coin to be created by many.

You just over rated about that.

In my opinion, I think having Manny Pacquiao or other famous celebrities as one of the promoters of gcox or any other cryptocurrencies can bring a huge amd good impact in the crypto world because they can help the promotion and popularity rise of the crypto world. These celebrities are followed by many people, so if they promote cryptocurrency, that would mean many people will be aware and may become interested in joining the cryptocurrency.

yeah right, manny pacman has so much money that he literally invests in alot of ventures including cryptocurrencies.  so much rumor about this guy.  some says he has plan to create his own coin, some says he has plans to run for president in 2022.

if all of the rumors are going to become a reality, this would be a very good news for the whole crypto, partucularly for philippines.  go pacman!

i think he see the possiblity crypto can bring to his countryman. by using his name and popularity, people will follow him and adopt cryptocurrency as mainstream in their country. making money while saving his country, sound like a good idea.

Even if the 8th World Division champion will promote Ico it does not mean that the project will disseminate, it depends on the investor of the electronic money if they want to enter the ICO. We are aware of the centra project where the promoter is also a world champion in boxing and that is mayweather jr. But eventually the project turned into a scam.

Will its a great project and good strategy of an ico if the one promoting is an artist or an athlete. As we all knew that Manny Pacquiao is very popular, so the ico will have a big chance to be successful.