*Most* of the Bitcoin shills are not hired.  It's simply a crowd sourced pump and dump scam by shitters hoping to erase 20 years of bad decision making by purchasing an imaginary, valueless token.  Although at the earlier stages of Bitcoin the shilling was done almost entirely by people like Andreas Antonopolous.  He's obviously not traveling ALL OVER the place giving those speeches for free.  He was/is a paid Bitcoin shill.  I'd be interested to know just who all was paying him to shill besides the ones that have already admitted it like Roger Ver.  Wouldn't be suprised to see some Larry Summers money and other evil Jews in there.