Who the hell is Max Keiser?

[LikeTurgenev]

He is the man how can make the value of bitcoin high in minutes, his shows are very watched. So also he owns a lot of bitcoins!

[Dalmar]

Although Max Keiser is quite a funny financial pundit, he often promotes horrible financial decisions. Promoting people to continue buying at the top of bubbles (silver a few years ago, and recently (late-2013) with bitcoin).

I wouldn't be surprised if he was actually selling most of his holdings when he is most vocally hyping.

[spazzdla]

Although Max Keiser is quite a funny financial pundit, he often promotes horrible financial decisions. Promoting people to continue buying at the top of bubbles (silver a few years ago, and recently (late-2013) with bitcoin).

I wouldn't be surprised if he was actually selling most of his holdings when he is most vocally hyping.

He was also telling people to buy BTC when it was $10...

[Dalmar]

He was also telling people to buy BTC when it was $10...

Keiser went full retard in the 800-1200 zone... even the youtube commenters got sick of him mentioning bitcoin in almost every single show during the top of the bubble.

He obviously knew that it was the near term top, but continued promoting it to more suckers, so he could sell most of his stash.

[Slingshot]

Re: Who the hell is Max Keiser?


 He is yet another joke.


Caveat emptor

[CryptoPanda]

He is your father!

[franky1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXELH90-1j0 max claims to be a bitcoin millionaire at 1m55, 7m40, 11m39 and 11m44 9th march 2013 when Bitcoin is at $46.

Max claims on his truth about markets show on www.resonancefm.com, broadcast on 23/2/2014 that he lost all his bitcoin. His private equity company hesinborg capital is an investor in bitpay.

guess he stored them all in gox. a bitcoin "bank" kind of the opposite action to what he has been preaching for the last decade.. just hope he learns from this the true meaning of decentralization, and doesn't make the mistake again

[MineForeman.com]

FYI: I'm not gonna bother to google him because he's not important, but who is he to the Bitcoin community?

OK, I will bite;-

1. If he is not important why do you want to know?

2. If you don't know who he is how do you know he is not important?

I ask because your question is sort of a "double whammy" of an oxymoron (sort of).  Did you even read responses... because he is so unimportant you did not want to know?

[BitOnyx]

dude with a lot of bitcoins, random altcoin, random youtube show and apparently specialist when it comes to bitcoin. Some people don't like him .

[CoinHumper]

The only guy that made a shit ton of money off Maxcoin, that's who.

[DeboraMeeks]

I hate his voice hahahahah

[Breaking6745]

I think he's great - as already mentioned, himself and Stacey make a good double act - he makes economics/finance interesting, and lets face it some of the subject matter could be a bit dry and boring otherwise.

Its great when I can listen to a US ex Wall Street stockbroker on a Russian TV programme being broadcast from London talking about China, gold and bit coin. 

  It definitely isn't the BBC 

Yes, it's just awesome. First I thought he is a kind of very selfish guy but I should admit I was wrong.

[kgo]

He was also telling people to buy BTC when it was $10...

Keiser went full retard in the 800-1200 zone... even the youtube commenters got sick of him mentioning bitcoin in almost every single show during the top of the bubble.

He obviously knew that it was the near term top, but continued promoting it to more suckers, so he could sell most of his stash.

Meanwhile, everyone here and on reddit were perfect voices of reason, sober in their advice, and they all sold off their bitcoin minutes before Chinese regulators spooked the entire market, causing the massive sell-off, which was entirely predictable to any insider.  Oh wait, that's not what happened.  Everyone else was going "full retard" here, and no one could predict that the Chinese government would "ban" bitcoin, causing the market to lose a significant chunk of its value in hours.

[5flags]

He's a very knowledgeable economist with a background in electronic stock trading. He's very much a "Dollar Vigilante" type, and is a friend to crypto-currencies in general. He interview the Ethereum guy not long ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U12dOR51Lzs

On a scale of 1 to 10, his personality is set to about 17.5, but once you get past that, he's one of us.

[kgo]

On a scale of 1 to 10, his personality is set to about 17.5, but once you get past that, he's one of us.

Yeah.

I think one thing that's interesting about him is that he's really far to the left politically.  People like to paint bitcoiners (and gold/silverbugs) as all being Libertarians.  Max certainly isn't a libertarian.  He thinks big business, especially banks, along with crony capitalism, have created essentially fascist states that oppress and exploit the general populace.  And he doesn't think less regulation is the answer to that problem.

He's more like the Dennis Kucinich of the bitcoin pundits, where everyone else wants to be Ron Paul.

[Dalmar]

Meanwhile, everyone here and on reddit were perfect voices of reason, sober in their advice, and they all sold off their bitcoin minutes before Chinese regulators spooked the entire market, causing the massive sell-off, which was entirely predictable to any insider.  Oh wait, that's not what happened.  Everyone else was going "full retard" here, and no one could predict that the Chinese government would "ban" bitcoin, causing the market to lose a significant chunk of its value in hours.

You can't compare Max Keiser (a former stock broker with advanced financial knowledge) to reddit noobs and bitcoin geeks who know nothing about finance. Anyone with the slightest TA skills could have spotted that ~1k was definitely a near term top and not advisable for new people to get into, yet despite this knowledge Max Keiser continued pumping the shit out of bitcoin. He is definitely predatory in nature and his history of pumping silver at the top and the recent Quark and Maxcoin scams clearly show this.

Ironically, Max often bitches about banksters pumping bubbles, but at least their analysts rarely advice people to get into the top of markets.

[spazzdla]

So if the price of BTC reaches 10k will max be a hero for telling you to buy at $1200? 

[davida]

Who the hell is Max Keiser?

He has done a hell of a lot more for bitcoin awareness than majority of us here, that's for sure.

You should check you RT (russia today) on youtube. It's also broadcast in the UK, i think it's on sky, virgin, freeview and freesat.

[ghur]

Who the hell is Max Keiser?

A clown without the makeup.

[kgo]

Meanwhile, everyone here and on reddit were perfect voices of reason, sober in their advice, and they all sold off their bitcoin minutes before Chinese regulators spooked the entire market, causing the massive sell-off, which was entirely predictable to any insider.  Oh wait, that's not what happened.  Everyone else was going "full retard" here, and no one could predict that the Chinese government would "ban" bitcoin, causing the market to lose a significant chunk of its value in hours.

You can't compare Max Keiser (a former stock broker with advanced financial knowledge) to reddit noobs and bitcoin geeks who know nothing about finance. Anyone with the slightest TA skills could have spotted that ~1k was definitely a near term top and not advisable for new people to get into, yet despite this knowledge Max Keiser continued pumping the shit out of bitcoin. He is definitely predatory in nature and his history of pumping silver at the top and the recent Quark and Maxcoin scams clearly show this.

Ironically, Max often bitches about banksters pumping bubbles, but at least their analysts rarely advice people to get into the top of markets.

So it was just a coincidence that the crash coincided with major bad news from China? The technicals indicated that this was bound to happen all along? Technical analysis can't predict a black swan.