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Andreas twitted this,

https://i.imgur.com/NoTT7iZ.png

https://twitter.com/aantonop/status/1293974232377032705

Lol, looks like the scam project is really trying hard to get one of the most respectable personalities in the field of crypto to disapproved that the project itself is not a scam.

Poor attempt on the side of Hex, and it just exposes what the people behind is, pure greed and scammers.

There are few people better to learn about bitcoin from or you can trust when it comes to their judgment whether a cryptocurrency is worth a damn or not than Andreas Antonopoulos.  No surprise here with Hex.

People will never learn and will continue to give away their crypto in exchange of airdrops and tokens. The people behind them will continue to try to find some sort of publicity and force as many people to search for it as they can. The more people know about it, it opens the pool of potential victims. They will then continue to pump and dump and walk away with whatever the excited newbies put into it.
This tweet from Andreas gave it more publicity than it has had in the last few weeks.

Someone like Andreas who has a lot of integrity to protect will not want to jeopardize his name and everything he has worked for. It is very funny how the HEX team is desperately looking for someone with a big name in crypto to clean up their mess but they could not think about their project before being engulfed in a scam. This is an eye-opener in case we see someone renown suddenly taking aside and making HEX look like a saint. Then we should know he/she must have collected the 10 BTC Andrea rejected

I learned from his books and his free announcement increases his reputation in crypto space. I am thankful to Andreas and Jating because of free announcements. I like Andreas because he gives us free to read his books on github.

It is good warning to newbies and they must learn from it to not blindly believe in influencers, KOLs' words. There are very little influencers, KOLs are actually good people and tech experts. It means most of them don't have enough knowledge and skills to assess project's legitimacy and validity. There are more forces with money behind and many of them can not reject financial benefits. I see many influencers of pump & dump groups use their influence to pump coins and stupid guys will get loses by believe in their words and buy at peaks where influencers happily smile and take profits.

Newbies beware of influencers -they might not know it all/it's can go wrong- (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5266530.0)
Be careful of INFLUENCER REVIEWS (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5164440.0)

For the offer of 10btc for a single interview alone is something to be weary of and it's good that some people still value their integrity beyond the few dollars that they could get and even if he had gone ahead to receive it, I am certain that they would have used such payment to blackmail him and rubbish whatever integrity he has.

this is not the first time scammers try to bribe others to advertise their shitcoin and practically help them scam others, like all those ICO signature campaigns that ran on bitcointalk for a long time and come back from time to time.
but it is rarely to someone so reputable and with integrity like A.A.! they must be so stupid and desperate to do this.

Yep, can't believe they were so stupid to try bribe someone with real integrity like Andreas Antonopolous.  I mean, I would expect from dodgy projects to pay McAfee or someone similarly ridiculous, who would take money without hesitation and shill the fuck out of Hex.
They didn't loose much respect as they didn't have much to start with but still stupid move, looking forward to hear their explanation for this.

It's been known that HEX is a scam yet those people who have paid for it can't accept that it's a scam. Andreas is valuing more of his integrity rather than being paid by that scam.

This is a plus for the reputation of Andreas while in HEX, they actually have nothing to lose because ever since they've been known as a scam, and the reach of Andreas is crystal clear and a signal whoever owns it has to accept it that they are holding a scam coin.

That was a damn way to bribe a known personality that doesn't really care how much BTC you gonna pay him. 10 BTC seems not worth it for that man, that will be another sign for the next scam project to bribe him. They need to increase their offers which might not really work though ;D ;D

Now there will be no rightful minded people will gonna invest to that HEX, I don't really know what kind of service they offer. now that they showed their true colors I doubt someone would even bother to look more information about their project.

Since Andreas Antonopoulos is one of the 'better' cryptocurrency personalities, he not only refused, but actually publicized the shill offers. But think of all the other crypto "influencers" out there— what are the chances that they're not accepting offers to shill certain coins and ICOs(regardless if scam or not)? Always take their videos and Tweets with a grain of salt.

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EDIT: This HEX bagholder's counter-argument though..

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EDIT #2: Apparently HEX shillers has their own advertisements pasted on some cars lmao? Probably fake tho. The Twitter thread is a freakin goldmine for HEX bagholder comedy.

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EDIT #3: Yo, let's downvote these HEX ads videos to the ground:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFdVVCw1AW0
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwlQIUvdjQU

Of course! Andreas would not jeopardize his reputation and prestige for a mere 10 BTC. Shame on the HEX team to even think about it since not only the expert opinion of one people can judge if a project is worthy or not but it involves the entire crypto community!

I think that tweet alone can be detrimental to the project yet we can only blame the HEX team if the project goes busted!

Saw the post few hours ago...and I just thought he was trying to prove a point... maybe about something else? Or someone else not related to the project offered him that amount?
It's abit hard to believe that someone who has "well-deserved" wealth earned through hardwork would "bribe" such personality without considering the possible implications. Or maybe he and the one offering the bitcoins are not really serious about this?

Faked or not from Andreas Antonopoulos

Everyone already knew they make some shilling attempt with different actors and cryptocurrency influence. They also got some review, will be guarantee this review was made by paid from "Trevon James" a youtube and Shiller a few years ago from Bitconect.

TBH, all of their concept just offering a percentage investment, stake and other things give everyone a bonus by holding their token. They already got money from the sale but also still have more than 50% total token to be dump by them.

Waiting for someone creating a cry thread because of this.

The good thing with AA is that he is never the type of dude to accept monetary payment for his own personal gains when it comes to the development of bitcoin and crypto in general. Also, HEX has disparaged their reputation without even having to pay for it, just by the words of one of the most respected and trusted community member. Ironic that they got what they wanted the other way around.

Smart tweet, implying it's probably a scam. I haven't heard of HEX prior to reading the tweet, but now that I've read up about it myself, I've formed an opinion. If not outright scam, HEX is at least very shady and risky. And paying for a reputable person's opinion is not cool, it only adds to their shadiness. Not to mention that if you google 'HEX crypto' to see whether it's a scam you'll see this website (https://www.hexscam.com/) on the first page of results, telling you that you probably think it's a scam, but it's totally legit. That, I'm sure, cost a lot of money to pull off, and again, it does not encourage to trust the company. So in such a case it's best to avoid and minimize the risks of being scammed. It's great there are influential people in the crypto area whose opinions cannot be bought.

Trying to bribe someone to backed their side, unfortunately AA is not that type of guy who's willing to sell his integrity.

With such tweet, it will bring more damage to already damaged reputation of this team,
it won't be changed anymore social medias nowadays is the best place to exposed someone
and it will triggered a lot.  

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Good thing  it was AA that they offered this BTC, let this tweets reminds those people who are still interested with this project.
Move forward and forget about it, there are still lots of good project don't waste your time and money.

Hah, Hex still trying to get out of the hole? and this time they attempted to bribe AA with 10 BTC? I lauded AA for not accepting this money, it truly shows that the man doesn't have a price. Why not Hex try to get John McAfee though, Lol, that will be hilarious if one day we see John twitting about Hex and promoting it. Fortunately, we already know that this is a scam project and I do hope that no noobs will invest on it so that the scheme will fall. Good job AA!

Well, as I know this Andreas Antonopoulos is a reputed one than HEX. Good job to AA and no one can buy his dignity and integrity, --it shows that he is not greedy and still thinking others side if he will going to accept the offer of HEX. It is really a shame to HEX, --not everything can be bought and not all are greedy in money. Perhaps, even how trying HEX to climb up the hills from the ground no one will carry them on the top of the hill because everyone knows that HEX is a scam. I salute to AA I do hope all crypto enthusiast like this, did not look their own interest.

Right, Andreas Antonopoulos is already a reputable member of the crypto community so I doubt that he will ruin it for just 10 BTC. And he knows that HEX is a scam so why associate his name on that said project?


Many are still investing on them, no doubt about it, but the problem is that there are too many crypto investors that are more intelligent and have been calling them out and there are those shillers as well. And maybe they want to turn the tide and pick AA to get on board. 10 BTC is nothing to Hex, they can make it out in just a couple of days. But the thing is AA is not dazzled by the offer and I don't think he will with any project.

Lesson to learn here - don't trust if even some very reputable person promotes a project and explicitly tells that it's not a scam. It's good that Andreas refused this offer, but somewhere out there some influencer might not. And don't forget that accounts can get hacked, even the highly public ones, recent Twitter hack shows it. Bitcoin doubling was an obvious scam, but it all could have been more subtle, like making crypto accounts shill for some shitcoins, for example.

Or someone like John Mcafee, pretending that his Twitter account was hacked because it was totally shilling a lot of shitcoins., John McAfee says his Twitter account was hacked (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42502770#:~:text=John%20McAfee%20has%20said%20his,no%20control%20over%20Twitter's%20security%22.). But obviously, it was not really hack, he just wanted to look like it, but then admitted later that he is demanding $100k per tweet. LMAO.

Kudos to Andreas Antonopoulos for "not losing it" to these scammers.

Bad try on the part of HEX !! If they had spent half of this amount well on the project and good publicity, they would have achieved much better results !!!
These attempts in themselves reveal that behind this hidden and illegal things, what makes you pay 10 Bitcoin to someone if you do not do illegal things? Even if they are not a scam, this attempt will be a black point for them and it will have the opposite effect.

sounds weird but I've heard this before, before andreas, John McAfee often promoted shitcoin and altcoin scams, so it's not strange to see that a project that doesn't look good is trying to cover up its ugliness by bribing famous people in the crypto world, but why are so many still trade for HEX

While there's literally no way for us to know unless we login to Andreas' Twitter account, I really won't be surprised if this was true. In the first place, HEX is a scam that has been doing a good amount of shady marketing anyway.

What do you mean? Good publicity? their reputation has been damaged already and regardless how much btc then spend to sort of damage control, it won't help them.


Because that's what criminals do right? This is call corruption, just like in any form of governments, any transactions involves some bribing to sort things up. And in this case, they want to be as legit as AA that's why they try to bribe him 10 BTC but was rejected.

What were they thinking? I mean how they thought this game theory would play out? Andreas is one of the few who i wouldn't try to bribe if i was promoting something shady. This backfire costs them way more then 10 btc.

I know their reputation was really damaged, but what I meant was that if the project had been honest from the start, worked well without manipulation, and done well, it would have had much better results. The failed bribery attempt caused much more damage and worsened their reputations.