About Jeff, some hearsay is I once called about their second passport service and spoke to one of the other principles, and they got very excited when they mistakenly thought I said I have found a way to mine Bitcoins at lower cost (or something like that), so I sort of detected that they might be "perpetually hoping to get rich quick" fake millionaires.
Digital alchemy? Yes. I could see them getting VERY excited.
Jeff has always been into "get rich quick" ideas. Speaking of which, whatever happened to his Bitcoin ATM company? A few years back he was VERY excited about that, and looking for investors and then he quietly jumped out of it without much fanfare.
Everyone remembers when this type of person gets it right (stopped clock) but less people point it out when these folks have failure after failure.
Jeff did make a few million in the dot com boom years back in the day. It was a very "right place, right time" thing, and he has been playing the part of millionaire playboy since, even as he's hit "almost broke", as he described it to me. (A real multi-millionaire probably wouldn't bother with "
blogging for dollars" either.)
He's still looking for another "easy money" payoff like he had in the mid-late 90s.
He also talks like he got into BTC when the getting was really good, but did he?
I've heard that saying many times about don't trust people who can't handle the small things correctly.
I wasn't implying my dad invented it. Just that I heard it young and it made an impression on me. My dad was also fond of saying "it's a poor workman who blames his tools." He didn't invent that either, but I use it all the time. It is SO commonly applicable.
I doubt very much that Jeff was a partner in Bitshares from the get go.
I also doubt that. I was talking about Steemit.
Also you might want to be aware of regarding Jeff's association with Doug Casey's estancia in Argentina......
Jeff Berwick loooooooooooooooooooooooooooves Casey. Doug Casey is genuine long-time multi-millionaire and an actual financial advisor whose opinion is valued by smart people.
Casey is who Berwick wants to be when he grows up.