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Poland's Central Bank Accused of Paying YouTubers To Make Videos That Attack the Legitimacy of Cryptocurrencies (businessinsider.com)
Poland's central bank has been accused of hiring YouTubers to "start a smear campaign" against cryptocurrencies in the country, Business Insider reports. From the story: According to Business Insider Poland, the Narodowy Bank Polski spent around 91,000 zloty ($27,300) on a marketing campaign designed to attack the legitimacy of cryptocurrencies. The money was spent on platforms including Google and Facebook, but was also used to pay a Polish Youtube partner network called Gamellon. The Gamellon network reportedly represents many of Poland's top YouTubers, including popular prankster Marcin Dubiel. In December, Dubiel published a video titled "STRACILEM WSZYSTKIE PIENIADZE?!" -- which loosely translates as "I LOST ALL MY MONEY?!" In the satirical video, Dubiel invests all his money in a fake cryptocurrency called Dubielcoin, gets rich, but then sees its value plunge and loses everything. It has racked up over 500,000 views.
I could have been getting paid telling people how stupid bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are?! And here I've been doing it for free like a chump.
So what's the problem? Speculative investing in an unregulated financial market which bills itself as an unregulated financial market ... this is kind of what it is.
Cryptocurrencies are the wild west, but that seems to be a design feature, so caveat emptor.
cryptocurrency attacks own legitimacy.
They're doing stories about people losing money in bitcoin. That's true, many have lost money, so what's the problem? It's not like they're a news agency that should be unbiased and present both sides of a story, they're a bank smearing.... is bitcoin even a competitor really? This seems more like a cautionary tale than a smear campaign
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
It's NBP, not NFB.
Don't forget abput the teenaged brothers whom she had drugged and placed in front of a traon in the mid 1980s...
Now she's putting people in front of TRAONS! No, not the traons! Anything but the traons!!!!
In Poland you have right-wing nationalist government who won elections thanks to such massive campaigns.
They have 20% support but have majority in the parliament thanks to smearing everyone else with lies and fake news and populistic promises.
Similar things are tried in many other countries - often campaigns are directly controlled from Kremlin.
Sounds more like a "public service announcement" for the Youtube generation. Good on them for warning people.
It really sounds like the Central Bank is doing their job and attempting to educate the public about the dangers of speculative investing, in a rather creative way. In times past, there would have just been a television advertisement buy or something.
I don't see the problem here at all, especially for a fairly reasonable fee.
^Speaking of paid trolls
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
Hard to attack the legitimacy of something doesn't have any.
C'mon man, don't be a dick, he clearly meant one of those light cycles from Tron.
Since the accusation came from Business Insider, this is like when Fox News says "people are saying".
Yep, I'm just a Russian operative blowing the cover of the Russian agent in the oval office for no apparent reason.
Figured it's better that he be impeached than to have Trump doing Russia's bidding for the next few years.
Or, as you republican traitors turned your backs on America for Moscow Donald you've forgotten that patriotic Americans don't take kindly to treason.
The Clintons had hundreds of millions to spend on this guy while Bill went down there to rape the very girls he was supposed to provide aid to. Hopefully the Lolita Express provided some AIDS back.
Their check cleared, didn't it?
People who are so easily influenced by authority do not deserve the first crack at freedom.
I sure hope this experiment pays off those with courage and gives our suffocating society a breath of fresh air.
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> often campaigns are directly controlled from Kremlin
baseless rumors and lies
Think of the quality 13 Russian media experts could bring to the video clips.
Educate Poland about the wonders of the emerging gig economy and make Poland trust its own government.
Central banking saves the nation from crypto currency speculation.
Think of the production values Russian have in understanding the local Polish culture.
The central bank in solidarity with Polish workers protecting their savings from risky crypto currency fluctuations.
"I'm from the central bank and I'm here to help"
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Gambling is not Investing.
New Zealanders are well balanced with a chip on each shoulder. One represents Australia, the other the rest of the world
Bill Clinton ONLY got into cocaine when he found that you could make anal rape easier by blowing it up da bunghoal.
Having lived and grown up in Poland for over 20 years, I can tell you all right away that what the central bank has done is very much in the spirit of how the curious country of Poland deals with politically and economically inconvenient matters. With deception, misinformation and treachery. I believe this state of things to be some sort of a post-communist legacy which remained within the Polish nation until the present day.
The central bank should still be subject to the same regulations.
Um, what's that, like $27,300 / $10,386 = 2.6... BTC.
Requiem for the American Dream
What they did was a PSA. It was a good thing. Governments should provide citizens with information that helps prevent them from getting ripped off. If the US were run by sane people, we'd do the same right now.
I don't respond to AC's.
by pointing finger, using right words to blame for some kind of wrongdoing, the author actually implies the cryptocurrencies are now legitimate. all hail to evilcoin.
The Central bank of Poland was "accused" of doing the good deed of warning people about fishy investments? Really, that's how accusations go nowadays? What's with this trend of biased headlines that suggest how we should think about the news, rather than just present the news? Postmodern journalism?
....is this any different than big bitcoin holders posting stories all over the internet that get picked up by facebook users, etc, touting how awesome it is?
If so-called cryptocurrencies are really good innovation, why they attract so many criminals/criminal activity?
Could it really be because, all cryptocurrencies themselves are scams, and that is why they attract all kinds of criminals/criminal activity?
If so-called cryptocurrencies are really currency, why no company/store can use Bitcoin as currency anymore?
Because the price of Bitcoin proved to be extremely unstable to use as a currency?
Would the result be different, if Bitcoin replaced by any other "cryptocurrency"?
Aren't all work the same way?
Or, they are not actually virtual currency but virtual investment?
But, if they are actually investment, why we need/want them?
What would happen to world economy, if people invested in virtual investments, instead of real investments?
Or, all so-called cryptocurrencies are actually just a modified (made decentralized and paying variable interest) Ponzi Schemes?
(Price of cryptocurrencies would keep increasing in the long term (by their design), so it is equivalent of paying variable interest to all long term investors.)
As more and more people invest in cryptocurrencies, it will become harder and harder to ban their trading everywhere!
All cryptocurrencies need to be banned globally before it is too late!
This is among the least bad things the Polish government's done lately.
polish government is gang of mobsters
signed,
The EUCrats and George Soros....