This afternoon as I was checking my e-mail on the phone during a moment of down time I saw an e-mail subject line titled "Cease and Desist". Being a business person and Entrepreneur this is obviously alarming so I immediately opened it up.
To my surprise I received a Cease and Desist e-mail from one of the larger Bitconnect promoters attourneys claiming that I slandered there client and ordering me to remove Youtube videos or I would be sued. I'm not going to mention which Bitconnect promoter this was, however if you think of say 5 of the largest, with 99% certainty you can probably assume it's one of them.
While I'll admit for a second it had me a bit shaken, nobody likes dealing with lawyers right, but after digesting the e-mail immediately started laughing.
I've decided not to mention which Bitconnect promoter this story involves, however I'm almost certain other Youtubers or bloggers had to receive a similar letter. The reason I think this is because Youtube, Reddit, and the blogosphere is filled with hundreds if not thousands of articles, Reddit posts, and Youtube videos calling the larger Bitconnect promoters scammers, fraudsters, assholes, motherfuckers and every other name under the sun.
The letter claims that this promoter was never involved in fraud, fraudulant activity, or promoting a ponzi scheme and that any claims that he was are false.
There's only one particular video of mine in which I think I even mention this promoter and I did nothing more than offer my commentary on the situation as well as their response to the situation.
Part of this which I find the most comical is in my video I comment on this persons response to the Bitconnect situation as well as things they had said in past videos. I went to click on the links today and guess what the videos have been scrubbed from Youtube and the internet.
I find it kind of funny that someone who did nothing wrong would feel the need to scrub any trace of them being involved with promoting Bitconnect.
For the time being I've removed the video from the internet because quite frankly I have better uses of my time than dealing with this fuckery, well that, and the fact that someone who by my estimates made well over a million Dollars promoting Bitconnect has much larger pockets than myself and I don't feel like getting into a legal battle.
That said I find the whole situation comical. I also think, man, these Bitconnect promoters have some balls. In my opinion they are completely in the wrong, yet they have the balls to come after me, and I'm assuming others for even daring to utter their name and comment on the situation.
I'm guessing others out there have received similar letters.
While I wasn't personally affected by this Bitconnect situation I do feel that Bitconnect and anyone who promoted it slandered the entire cryptocurrency space and gave the entire cryptocurrency community a black eye which is why I'm personally offended and bothered by it.
That's all I got, but I couldn't believe the balls on this guy to start sending out cease and desist letters like I'm in the wrong somehow for talking about this.