<story><title>Coffeezilla, a YouTuber Exposing Crypto Scams</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/coffeezilla-the-youtuber-exposing-crypto-scams</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>johnebgd</author><text>Blockchain has two proven use cases:&lt;p&gt;1.) Speculative investment assets.&lt;p&gt;2.) Moving value outside of a financial system.&lt;p&gt;Unregulated stable coins have proven to be as stable as the titanic was unsinkable.&lt;p&gt;Number 1 is really a problem because of Number 2. Number 2 is a fancy way to describe a primary use case being money laundering. Of course though there are some instances where that’s helpful like backing a foreign government you agree with. Unfortunately, it also means countries like North Korea can use it to evade sanctions.&lt;p&gt;Blockchain is largely a solution in search of a problem with speculators throwing money into stuff they don’t understand.&lt;p&gt;I’m a reformed blockchain enthusiast.</text></comment>
<story><title>Coffeezilla, a YouTuber Exposing Crypto Scams</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/coffeezilla-the-youtuber-exposing-crypto-scams</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danieldevries</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve followed Coffeezilla for a while. I was doing an AI course from another youtuber named  Siraj Raval in 2019. The course ended up being totally amateur and full of empty promises.&lt;p&gt;Mr Zilla did a video about it: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=7jmBE4yPrOs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=7jmBE4yPrOs&lt;/a&gt;
&amp;#x27;AI Guru makes $238,800 with misleading paid course. doesn&amp;#x27;t credit developers. | Siraj Raval FGF&amp;#x27;&lt;p&gt;Then Zilla started exclusively focusing on crypto&amp;#x2F;NFT scams. The first few were interesting. Now... its a quite tedious, &amp;quot;the blockchain never lies...look they pulled the rug...&amp;quot; &lt;i&gt;yawn&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I hope he goes back to covering other interesting topics again.</text></comment>