Andreas Antonopoulos: HEX offered me 10 BTC to show that it is not a scam

[hatshepsut93]

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.

[Yaunfitda]

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. 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.

[yhiaali3]

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.

[samuraijin]

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

[mk4]

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?

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.

https://twitter.com/RichardHeartWin/status/1191860770172231681

[btc_angela]

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 !!!

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.

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.

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.

[cryptoperkele]

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.

[yhiaali3]

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 !!!

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.

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.