I'm not sure if I understand the analogy you used. In your example does that someone selling the broke family shares in a goldmine equate to risto advising people publicly on this forum to buy bitcoin? Or am I missing something and there is more to it?
In his defense I have never seen him be downright dishonest. If you have any examples of this I would like to see them. Has he been wrong on many of his predictions? Yes, but who has not. That hardly constitutes dishonesty in my opinion.
Dishonesty is an odd thing. Is a guy who sells a starving family
scratch tickets shares in a goldmine dishonest?
What if he tells the starving family that said goldmine's a sure way to make a million while sitting on their collective broke ass?
What if he, at the very same time, is selling them *his own* shares?