After our previous article that was describing in detail the whole strategy of bitcoin.org and tactics they use to brainwash people into buying a useless crypto <<currency>>.
Promising them beautiful dreams of unlimited wealth and describing them histories upon histories of evolutionary cryptography, naming Bitcoin the ultimate currency that will bring them a paradise of profit. It's time to categorize them and identify them one by one. In fact, they are so kind they always provide us with live examples we can use in their sub reddit.
So let's start.
Tactic Number One: Financial advice that supports the interests of the bitcoin "holder"
As you can see the thread has 3000 upvotes, most likely 1000 of them are upvotes of their paid trolls/ advertisers, but why would they say to people "don't day trade" and give them such kind and logical advice?
See the answer here is simple, if they don't day-trade, they won't see how crappy the bitcoin market is, they will "hold hold" supporting both the miners interests, and after the "hold hold" they will start buying buying more - to hold, or even better hook some newbies into buying and holding, so in the end it's a game of them against trading companies. Consider it like "Bitcoin vs etoro".
The point isn't which one is better, holding or day trading, because when it comes to the bitcoin they promote both are shit, the point is to make sure that they receive the approval of the poor fools who attempted day trading (most likely by a branch of them ironically) and make certain they have their trust, because if they have their trust, they have their money.
By adding the term "Study" on top of it they make certain they seem like they appeal to science, despite how they censor 10000 studies that show that the current bitcoin isn't a usable cryptocurrency. Which gets us to the second tactic.
Tactic Number Two: "Don't listen to the corrupted media, listen to us"
This is a good example of another manipulation tactic they use, they basically reverse engineer the process of manipulation, they make themselves the honest, direct, bold, truth seekers and truth tellers, and the media the corrupted, evil, companies that tell them to sell their "Digital gold".
Unfortunately things aren't that simple in the adult world, and it's statically very probable that they also sponsor the media that promote buying & selling
You could say that the bitcoin world has turned into politics. Speaking about politics let's get to one of my favorite tactics.
Tactic Number Three: "The personal/ family/ love story that involves bitcoin"
So this guy is probably one of the three: A moderator who's alting, a paid troll/ advertiser/ or a hardcore enthusiast who believes that his whole existential value is based on whether bitcoin will reach the moon/stars/galaxies/ supernovas and other magical things that apparently exist in the world of the golden digital currency.
Why do they do this? It seems warm and fuzzy doesn't it? Familiar, humane.
Well the answer is simple, they do this because it makes people feeling like they're part of something, part of something great, the motto "to the moon" added with a close family member/girlfriend, gives a familiar- accepting feeling to the person reading it. And together with their previous propaganda which is "let's reach the stars together" the person who posted it receives upvotes, and these upvotes re-promote the very fuzzy feeling that will manipulate the next poor fool that will think that the price of bitcoin is part of his own family.
Sounds insane when you put it that way doesn't it? Well guess what you see 20 of these posts daily in r/bitcoin.
Speaking about insane posts, let's get to their most desperate ones.
So this guy above came all the way to reddit, to ask his fellow occult-holders if it is a good idea to break up with his imaginary girlfriend because "she told him to stop holding".
Apparently his girlfriend asked him to stop holding to deal with his final obligations, but who would want to deal with his final obligations when he has an illness to satisfy and an e-team of fellow bitcoin holders to reaffirm himself and his delusions with?
Like who would ever want to be reasonable with his assets, who wouldn't want to play roulette with his life and money because the r/bitcoin told him so.
Insane isn't it? Speaking about insane, let's get to tactic number 4
Tactic Number Four: "Now is the right time to buy bitcoin"
Apparently based on the ladies and gentlemen of r/bitcoin the right time to buy bitcoin comes very frequently, so it must be a multi-dimensional cryptocurrency or something, cause look:
A 2 days redditor who's definitely a new reddit user who just happened to bump to r/bitcoin and just happened to be fanatically obsessed with buying bitcoin, claims that the right time to buy bitcoin was 10 hours earlier.
However that's not all there is to it, it gets much much better than that really.
14 hours ago was also the perfect time to buy bitcoin. What a coincidence right? Two perfect times to buy bitcoin in the same day, amazing really.
But it doesn't end there.
19 hours ago was also the time to buy bitcoin. But wait.
One hour ago was also the perfect time to buy bitcoin..
Seriously though, if you surf their entire subreddit, 1000 times you will read "now it's time to buy bitcoin" and maybe once per month you will read "maybe it's not time to bitcoin". And that's if you cross through layers and layers of downvotes and trolls, and that's it if the fuck up is so great no amount of Tactic Number Four is enough to fix it.
But maybe you're among the brave ones who have some common sense and you ask questions like this one, aka perfectly reasonable questions.
Tactic Number Five: "Kill any reasonable doubt before it grows"
So this guy probably learnt about bitcoin, had some assets decided to try investing, clicked reddit bitcoin, boom, bumped into the sub with the 2 millions. He thought to himself.
"This is my time, this is where I can learn everything about bitcoin, look at all these satisfied people, they must know everything".
Now let's see what responses did he receive from the knowledgeable and truthful r/bitcoin members.
Who is this "great muffin" I wonder, let's see what's up with him. He is probably just a mod or another reddit user right?
So they got everything planned here as you can see, they even have a sub- section for their brainwashing e-rooms where they apparently "guide newbies towards the right bitcoin path of enlightenment".
Of course that subreddit is filled with their people promoting the wallets that they find best/ the services that they find best/ and before you know it, you got a full fledged fucking idiot who is ready to spend his salary in a ponzi scheme. "Magic"
Speaking about magic.
Tactic Number Six: "Bitcoin is the result of blah blah, bitcoin is a masterpiece. blah blah."
See that bullshit right here right? It seems very intellectual and articulate.
Well guess what, it's a bullshit. Literally every single software in the internet is "4 decades of crytography/pre history" literally the device you currently use to read this required that many decades of cryptography and technological evolution. The argument this "bitcoin_to_Da_moon" is using, is flawed, baseless, and irrelevant.
To begin with crypto-currencies, are always based on decades of previous cryptography, there's no other way around it, software engineering from MIT to NASA level shit. Is based on simplifying and combining different forms of codes. And cryptography is also based on a form of coding, automated or not.
So what they do here, in order to make sure they sound technologically correct, they grab something that sounds smart, make a meme/ a picture about it, then post it in order to complete the picture of a legit company. Cause r/bitcoin isn't a sub reddit or a community, it's a company.
A company that makes cash off moronic people. Speaking about moronic people.
I'm not sure if we can call this a manipulation tactic because it's way too fucking stupid, but anyways.
Tactic Number Seven: "This is good for bitcoin"
See I don't really have to elaborate on that one because you can literally just go to r/buttcoin or r/btc and read 1000000 technically and logically sound reasons why NOTHING CURRENTLY ISN'T GOOD FOR BITCOIN. So instead of wasting both our times here, I will move on to my favorite tactic.
Tactic Number Eight: "Michael Saylor"
So this retard is apparently an american entrepreneur.
Why focus on this guy? To be honest I been developing for years I never heard of him, but apparently after enough promotion he became the icon of "have fun staying poor" bitcoin holders who seek their super crypto to fly to the moon.
He's the one who will extend his hand and show them the way to a real bad ass investor lifestyle.
So what this guy says in summarize (in case you think I am lying just google him or search him in youtube).
"When someone tells you to stop buying bitcoin" you tell him THIS!!!!
"Have fun staying poor haha" / emoji with sunglasses
"Did you know this about bitcoin?"
"Don't let the government tell you what to do!"
His tactics appeal mostly to low IQ bitcoin users or libertarians who feel like he is the personification of their ideals.
Little they know is that they probably make up his monthly salary, but they don't care about that. As long as he works as a tool to reaffirm them that their decisions of buying bitcoin (at whatever price are accurate) they will continue being his loyal crypto-subjects.
These are the 7 main tactics they openly use, if we get to the alting/ reporting/ harassing/ trolling/ you might think that we're paranoid, so for this article I kept it simple, direct, with examples you can see yourself.
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