Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Linus slept on Coffeezilla”.
Why don’t we move on to the coffee? Zilla news? Can I just say I only recently became aware of coffeezilla’s Channel and I feel, like I’ve really been missing out, because it’s awesome me too. I haven’t had enough time to watch full length, but like juicy yeah, I this isn’t actually it’s it’s one of those funny things where you know just Serendipity strikes sometimes, and I became aware Anew of coffeezilla twice this week like I’d, never become aware and then twice They landed um twice, they landed in my in in my inbox or in my, it was actually a a document that I was reading kind of, like uh, like a like a marketing uh like a marketing guide document that I was looking at, trying to figure out How to Market better on LTT store – and it was written for me specifically and had like a kind of a tone to it – um something something something don’t do this. You don’t want to end up on coffee Zilla and I was like okay hey. I would have never done that in the first place, but B what the crap is coffeezilla and then it ended up in my inbox because of the crypto Zoo issue. Now I want to say first of all that it kind of could have been us remember. Linus coin yeah: we never did it, no okay, so a we never actually built a crypto token.
It’S amazing how much people wanted us to make one and B what were we gon na call it at the end of the day drop coin or like one pull coin, or something like that? I know rug, pull coin got got mixed around a little bit yeah. I’M thrown around there we go because the whole idea idea was that we were gon na be like okay. This is a grift we’re gon na own. It we’re gon na be up front yeah. We were like this is the only way we’re gon na do this.
If we, if we just openly, tell everyone we’re scamming them, this is a way to donate and if you guys ultimately go for it, then hey. We were all on the same page here, yeah um, so that that what that was never gon na happen, but I’m really glad that even if we had approached it that way like lol were scamming, you I’m glad we didn’t, because men, the way that sentiment has Changed from LOL meme coins yeah, it’s all a big rip-off to oh, my gosh. I can’t believe that this collapsed and my life savings are gone feels like it happened, really fast, hey, yeah, definitely, and I one of the reasons why we ended up not doing the whole rug pulled coin thing was because we didn’t trust people to take us seriously. That it was a scam.
I don’t even remember all the con. We had multiple conversations around this yeah because it’s like honestly, if you want to get rich quick, it really does seem like the winning move. Just scamming people, yeah yeah. I mean how much more money would I have if I just scammed people. Probably a lot like took like all the gambling sponsors and coffee bill is going to come for you were you getting paid to okay, so so, what all is there? Okay, like gambling, seems like a really good one by the way we we do not accept any gambling sponsorships gambling sponsors forget about it yeah, but like gambling sponsorship, so yeah you had what’s his nuts train wrecks, um? No, no, no! No! No! No! No! No old school, the guy that had the Razer sponsorship for the longest time were his responsible, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, where he owned, the the like, like CS, go betting or whatever, I’m not gon na. Remember the name but there’s two of them. Wasn’T there yeah yeah, there was two guys the two different CS go like skin gambling sites or whatever yeah yeah that whole thing. So there’s that then there’s the one where you supposedly are gambling on a site and like winning, but actually that site is, is giving you money to lose on the site. That’S a really popular one. Yep, a syndicate syndicate, that’s the one! That’S the one yeah that was, I can’t believe, the like tiny little wrist slap that those guys got off with like holy smokes um.
What what are? What are some of the other? What are some of the other good games, so yeah gambling on a site you actually own and then gambling on a site where you’re being paid and oh right and the odds are tilted in your favor to make it seem like you’re gon na win, because you’re Being paid by the site, that’s uh, yeah. That seems to be two of the really popular ones and then, of course, there’s the whole nft one. So why don’t we? Why don’t we get into what exactly it is that happened with crypto Zoo, we’ll we’ll talk a little bit about um? You know our take on this, but this is not a substitute for going and watching the coffee Zilla video, because it is excellent, uh, the one that I actually I haven’t. I haven’t watched this one, I’m assuming it’s excellent. The one that I watched recently was on um uh hold on when it was drawn to my attention. I really really enjoyed it though it was super awesome.
Youtuber accidentally exposes the scam he’s promoting. I show speed, yeah, really really good video, really good video. Don’T take my word for it. Take the word of the 6.1 million people who watched it already great Channel anyway.
The point is Luke. Do you want to give us the run down here? Uh sure crypto zoo is an nft based game. Nice sort of sounds legit, we’ll get into that in a second yeah uh, where players can earn passive income totally makes sense, definitely uh. It was initiated and heavily promoted by Logan Paul in quotes. It’S a really fun game that earns you money, wouldn’t that be great.
Uh, the player now the player purchases Zoo token, they use Zoo to purchase eggs of animals. These eggs can be bred and interesting, uh and minted to create unique nfts. The hatched animals should be some sort of cross between the two.
The unique hatched animals would then accrue value. This is not new and has basically been done before. There’S crypto kitties. I think people in the space have heard of cryptokitty, so this is a fairly major project, Zoo token launched in July 2021. At the time of launch 2.5 million dollars worth of eggs had been sold, crypto zoo was supposed to come out in September of that year cough cough Star, Citizen, uh, Val value, plummeted by October, Rose a bit in November and then crash again in May, as as Crypto things tend to do. The crypto Zoo website says that it was undergoing upgrades to the core infrastructure of the ecosystem.
That’S biggest load of jargon. I’Ve ever heard. That’S so good, I’m I’m taking that for sure.
Why isn’t this happening? Uh? It’S just tough! You know we’re we’re undergoing upgrades to the core infrastructure of the ecosystem. Yeah. Sorry, we we’d love to get back to you, but uh.
Our team is busy upgrading uh core aspects of the ecosystem: uh infrastructure, um, butt plug. How are you will Whedon uh? Okay, Stephen Finster findison findison, I’m so sorry, I guarantee you that’s wrong. I apologize uh AKA coffeezilla has uploaded several videos, criticizing Logan Paul’s, crypto Zoo. He has done similar videos, uncovering scams and frauds over the past few years. Uh these often relate to crypto and nfts. I’M so surprised, uh the criticism the nfts initially released were photos that can be easily found on the internet and then edited just like every nft um.
Well, ever of that type I know there’s it’s a technology that can be used for other yeah, sure uh, the eggs couldn’t be hatched bit of an issue when that’s the core functionality of the game. Players couldn’t get their money back. I’M not surprised, but you know it is a thing and basically nothing works and the site never fully launched. Big yikes Logan has blamed the main developer of the project. He said he got involved with the wrong people, uh made mistakes and missteps, and that there is a new team working on the project. Now the dev later said that Logan hired a team then failed to pay them a bit of an issue. Coffee Zilla has since been publicly invited to go in Logan’s podcast impulsive. To talk about this. He has declined for now on Twitter, yeah, okay. This is the part where I was like wait. What yeah he and Logan he invited Logan first privately and then Logan publicly invited him yeah podcast, like what you you didn’t. Think coffee, though, was gon na go like yeah. By the way I invited this guy first, like you’re, getting exposed. Why are you doing more stuff behind the scenes? So weird I mean these. These I mean the the drama gets more views. The drama gets more reviews.
Controversy is a feature not a bug. That is something that he is legitimately very good at is stirring things over his husband, uh coffee Zilla has been public. Oh right already did that part um. He refuses to fly to his in quotes, crypto Zoo tax Haven on New Year’s lol, yeah good stuff.
So is there, as far as I know, board ape is getting or board eight yacht club or whatever is getting sued right now for, like oh really, racism, stuff or something oh, like the nft space is crumbling faster than I would have even expected. I heard there’s um there’s a company. I man I okay. This is this. Is I only sort of vaguely remember reading about it? So take this for what it is, but um I heard there’s a company that specializes in helping you turn your nfts into a tax write-off that you can utilize for like this this year, like this tax year, because you lost so much because you lost so much Money on them, um and apparently business is booming. Oh Mike yeah, I honestly it was pretty. Whoever did that is smart, yeah yeah I mean you, I you. If you lose money on an investment, you absolutely should try to.
You know get it at least non-taxable um, like if the money, if the money is lost, then it’s lost like it’s. It’S not income, that’s for sure um. So that’s the opposite of that yeah yeah pretty rough. Now this is great.
I did not know this, which is sort of embarrassing coffee. Zilla has made a video about me. Oh really, yes, it was back when we did that uh nice hash, sponsored video and I obviously haven’t watched it. I’M very sorry I I will.
I will watch it at some point um, so I obviously haven’t watched it, but let’s go. It is apparently um focused on the criminal history of the founder of nice hash, oh um, which I did become aware of after we uploaded that video. That was sponsored by nicehash uh.
We did tell you guys after that, on the following win: show, there’s actually comments under the video about it. I was just looking. I’M browsing the con because I can’t watch the video live, so I’m browsing the comments to see sort of what was in it and what wasn’t in it um.
So people, apparently a week later, we did address it on Wan show. No. It was not something that I was aware of and we have not worked with nicehash since then.
We won’t work with nice hash again with that said, that doesn’t mean, and, like I said at the time, it doesn’t mean that I haven’t used the product. It doesn’t mean that I wouldn’t use the product. It’S been fine, the times that I’ve used it.
In fact, I used it today. Uh we did a video uh. The title is going to be ask me why I’m crypto mining in 2023. I know why and it’s great anyway I was lazy and, as you will discover later on in the video It Doesn’t Really Matter.
So we just we used nice hash to effectively mine as a benchmark, um and uh. So hopefully, I’m gon na watch this video and it’s gon na not be too um bad um. I guess I have that to look forward to after the show. .