In this video the host delivers a commentary on the dynamics of cryptocurrency influencer marketing, using the recent unfollowing of Trevon James by Richard Heart (RH) as a case study. He traces James’s history as a BitConnect promoter and later HEX advocate, explaining how RH leveraged James’s audience to boost HEX. The host argues that the majority of crypto projects resemble BitConnect‑style pyramid schemes and warns that the SEC’s new hard‑line stance—exemplified by Chair Gary Gensler labeling Ethereum a security—could bring many Ethereum‑based tokens under regulatory scrutiny, while Bitcoin remains largely untouched. He critiques the practice of promoters hopping between communities, citing Jack Levine’s alleged appropriation of HEX community members for XEN, and condemns marketing models that resemble MLMs. The video contrasts high‑fee, inefficient Ethereum with low‑fee alternatives like PulseChain and XEN, questioning their long‑term viability. The host then promotes BitcoinMYK as a genuinely useful, deflationary project with strong tokenomics, urging viewers to support projects that deliver real utility rather than speculative hype. He calls for a neutral media outlet to responsibly highlight such projects and stresses the personal responsibility of both creators and investors to conduct due diligence, ask critical questions, and avoid being misled by unregistered securities or Ponzi‑like schemes. The video concludes with a reminder to make informed choices about what to promote and purchase.
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Welcome back to the channel. I hope you all are having a great day as we go into the weekend. Um, so this video, we're just gonna talk a little bit about Zen promotion, the Zen crypto promotion. Uh, now this is old news, uh, but many of you in the cryptocurrency space are probably familiar with, uh, Trevon James, um, Many of you all probably encountered him back in the day when BitConnect was a thing. And the thing about BitConnect, I never really attacked BitConnect, and I'm gonna tell you why. I kind of grouped most cryptocurrency projects in with BitConnect at the time, although I wasn't a, you know, a promoter of BitConnect. But I kind of, you know, looked at them all kind of similar, this kind of pyramid structure where most people are going to lose their money. So I all kind of saw the BitConnects as the same, right? Um, or many of these cryptocurrency projects. Um, so as of late, uh, Trevon James, who had been, uh, this HEX supporter— he still is because he still has HEX, as I understand it— but To kind of give some background to it, there's a backstory to it. Uh, when HEX first came out and Richard Heart was kind of going on his promotional campaigns, right, he, he would meet with various crypto influencers, and Trevon James was one of them. Um, Trevon James, uh, you know, he kind of gave the story about BitConnect, um, and, you know, and how, but how good a marketeer Trevon James was. I think Trevon was one of the number one BitConnect promoters, um, or one of the more successful, uh, and so Richard Hart, uh, obviously could find great use in Trevon James, uh, pulling some of his crowd into HEX, especially that, uh, he kind of had this entire narrative going about, uh, how HEX would take people who would normally fall for scams and, uh, convert them into a good project, right? And so, um, uh, you know, again, many— about over 90% of the cryptocurrency projects, in my opinion, are BitConnect-level projects. These aren't good projects. Uh, what the future is going to look like for cryptocurrency is the, the new head of the SEC, Gary Gensler, this guy's a great deal more hard-nosed about going after crypto. He's even saying Ethereum is a security, right? Imagine that. In his mind, Ethereum is a security. So if Ethereum is a security, you best believe everything on Ethereum is going to, you know, will be a security, right? Only thing he hasn't seemingly attacked is Bitcoin. So looking at it from that perspective, it's more than likely you're going to already fall in the scope of a security. Right? You know, so that's why I lightened up on trying to color Trevon in that sense. Now the problem I found with, I kind of took it at, I kind of saw it, I don't know how, I think I'm assuming Trevon James saw it as a slight when Richard Hart basically unfollowed him. And you know what I'm starting to get out of the idea of Richard Hart is that he's a bit control freak as well, right? This, the ego with Richard Hart, I thought it was an act at first, but now I'm starting to feel like this maybe is who he is, right? And I don't get involved in drama a lot, you know, um, with in the cryptocurrency space. That's not really what we do here. I don't have an interest in it, but, uh, what I'm seeing and what I've always known is, as we've been around since 2018, a good project that We look at people who promote us as more like partners and associates and creating a good project, and there's no reason to, uh, get upset with you. You do what you want to do, right? But in this particular case, it just seems like a situation where Richard Hart saw where he could use Trevon James to promote HEX, which everybody got something out of the deal. If Trevon James had enough HEX, he got the value from HEX, and so on and so forth. But what I really wish would happen— and this is not just, you know, picking on Trevon James and many of these other YouTube content influencers who make these cryptocurrency projects work, which is why a lot of the heat was put on Jack Levin about coming in the HEX community, sticking his head in long enough just to kind of rob and steal the HEX, you know, community to carry over to XEN, right? You do that, you don't have to pay for marketing. Uh, we have an affiliate program, right? And all our cryptocurrencies are free, and it's done in a way where it's, uh, not to be one of these like MLM scams, right? This is in the purest form of trying to create the most well-distributed cryptocurrency the world has ever seen, right? And we do it with a very user-friendly interface with great tokenomics. In the end, it's only going to be 5 million coins. About 4 times more deflationary than Bitcoin, uh, running on chains that are free or almost free. And again, I'm starting to think Ethereum, uh, the, the Ethereum narrative, or using an inferior product like Ethereum, right? Think about how inefficient Ethereum is, right? Can you imagine going out and purchasing a vehicle and an expensive gas-guzzling vehicle, right? When most people in America would get more use out of an efficient vehicle that is, uh, energy efficient, right? Cost effective. And that's what Ethereum is like, right? It's like people dumping their money into an inefficient machine. Why not just use low-fee chains, right? Uh, like a lot of people are complaining about, you know, we're saying, well, when Richard Heart launched PulseChain, right, the whole idea was making it appealing was it's going to be low fees, right? Ethereum 2.0 didn't achieve lower fees, right? But let's be realistic, all of this other stuff with the, uh, biggest airdrop in the world where you're putting all these other developer projects on the chain that these developers aren't going to come over and work on and, uh, build up the value of this product, right? Really, what PulseChain is going to end up being more likely is just Richard Heart coins on there and providing a low fee structure for that community, right? If that's the case, why not just focus on that, right? And, and, and PulseChain could have launched a whole time, a long time ago. And, and I got some posts and things that— but I'm, I'm not really— much like the XAND project and Pulse These projects to me are like dead-end projects. I'll get in, I'll make a little bit of money, but I don't really see a future for these projects other than, uh, them just, you know, going up high in value and then fizzling out to nothing. And, uh, that's not what I want to see. I want to see projects that carry real use to people, right? That's where real true value lies. And I think that's what BitcoinMYK is. And if you guys take a look at it and use it I'm very sure you will see in very little time how world-changing it can be and will be, right? No doubt about it. Um, takes a long time, but I, I have no doubt in my mind that that's what's going to occur, uh, with this project, right? What I'm saying is the value is in promoting good projects, right? I don't care how you want to flip it, look at it. Projects that have staying power and that are useful to people, right? I can't really do anything with HEX, right? When you talk about the staking for 15, 20 years, and you can make the narrative that, uh, oh well, you know, that's all Bitcoin does, but there's already a Bitcoin and it's very successful, right? And it's probably not going to be replaced for another 100 years, you know. So to make that, you know, I don't, you know, that to me, that's not really a strong argument. I think the better focus is focus on what crypto in the now time can do for people on a use case basis. And I'm not going to go into a big detail about what Bitcoin and YK does because you can simply subscribe to the channel and that's for another video. What we're talking about is content creators who make these products possible and known to us. Marketing costs a lot of money and we don't, uh, you know, a lot of these projects don't starting out especially, don't have the marketing budget. Marketing is expensive. So when they community hop and they usurp other people's communities, that, that cuts some double time, right, to, to get these projects off and running, right? Obviously, right? And that's why the people were heated about Jack Levine. And that's why it's important that, uh, people promote Zen who want to see it successful, whether it be Trevon James or other members of the Hex community, and there are some that have, but then there's that core big group that's staying away from it. Uh, my, my— the whole takeaway I'm trying to impart in this video is that, uh, promote good products with, uh, good partnerships with people, right, you're involved with, where they don't unfollow you, where you're doing good to the world, where that's always going to be a lasting legacy. Of good productivity and making, you know, good choices for the world, right? And you have to look at the projects to know what those are. And you can tell by how some of the founders act and creators act if that's a good project, right? If you got, if you're in some type of controlled environment, you know, like what Trevon's, as I was watching some of his videos, he felt contained on what he can do. Um, you know, uh, you know, you can't— that's a problem we all have as content creators, right? You can't say anything, uh, bad about cryptocurrencies where your bags are at. I do, and I started my own, and I talk about the shortcomings of Bitcoin and MYK as well as the good things. But most people aren't going to do that, and so we're, we're not going to get well-established information, uh, that's, um, things that could be harmful to us. We're not going to hear about those things because these people are trying to protect their bags, right? Can we have, uh, an information outlet where that's, you know, not what's happening, right? We might need a neutral media scoop on that to talk about the good projects, right? And not just the projects that are being pumped up and that Uh, you might have Ethereum whales just trying to keep this inefficient machine relevant, but a really good media outlet source to market these projects in a responsible way, uh, and especially promote good ones, right, that help the environment, good ones that— and there's so many that I can name, uh, that, uh, um, help improve and decentralize, uh, artificial intelligence like Singularity.net. There are tons and tons I can go on that you never hear about, right? And it's all because it's not, um, people aren't paying for the marketing for them, right? Because it's so expensive. But what we are getting promoted is Ponzi schemes and unregistered securities and so on. So what we want to see happen is we want to see people like Travon James promote good projects like BitcoinMYK, not just BitcoinMYK, but other projects, right? Where he can sit down with the founders and don't have to be unfollowed when he doesn't do what they want him to do, how they want him to do it, no matter if the project's going in the wrong direction or not. Uh, and so that would be my message to not just Travon, but everybody else out there who's, uh, promoting these cryptocurrency projects, and even you guys who are buying these things, right? Uh, you know, and then you come forward and you talk about, hey, why hasn't this project launched yet? Uh, I feel like I've been bamboozled. I feel like I've been scammed, right? Why is it so hard? Why is this guy spending all our money, it seems, and, you know, and not doing anything, right? And whether that's the case or not, that's what the image seems to be with a lot of messages we find across social media. Uh, it is our personal responsibility to not be in those situations, whether you be content creator or buyer. Uh, be knowledgeable about your crypto, understand the direction of that project, who's involved, why they're doing what they're doing, and why they're doing it. Is it in line with what they're doing? If they're talking about giving away a free crypto project, You're giving away a project that's supposed to be free, but it's costing the people more to enter into the project than it would be just for them to buy the crypto, you know, the cryptocurrency. That is oxymoronic. It's just crazy, right? It's dumb. So ask the questions, right? Allow yourself to ask the questions. Um, you know, allow yourself to take the time to study the project. It's important because it's your money. Take 10 minutes, take 15 minutes. If, uh, it's worth spending $100 on, $1,000 on, $10,000 on, $1 million on, it's worth taking the time to understand the project. But that's all I want to say in this video. I hope that that, uh, means something to some of you all, uh, and it drives you to an effective point to make better choices in what you promote and what you buy. That's all I want to say in this video. If you like content like this, don't forget to like, subscribe to times, always take care of yourselves and each other.
