Crypto YouTube: Who's Really Teaching and Who's Just Shilling?
So, you wanna learn about crypto from YouTube? Good luck with that. It's like trying to find a clean bathroom at a music festival. Possible, but you're gonna wade through a lot of crap first. Let's be real, most of these "crypto gurus" are just glorified sales reps pushing whatever coin they're holding.
Crypto Gurus: Experts or Just Reddit Repeaters?
The Illusion of Expertise
These channels, they all promise the same thing: "unlocking" the secrets of crypto. Uh huh. I'm sure the guy filming from his Lambo really cares about *my* financial well-being. What a joke. They want you to think they're experts, dropping terms like "tokenomics" and "smart contracts" like they invented them. But how many of them actually *understand* this stuff, and how many are just regurgitating what they read on Reddit five minutes ago? I'm betting it's heavily skewed toward the latter.
And don't even get me started on the "transparency" they all brag about. "We admit when we're wrong!" Okay, great. So you're admitting you're fallible? That's not exactly a selling point, is it? It's like a car salesman saying, "Yeah, this model has a tendency to burst into flames, but hey, at least we're honest about it!"
"Reliable" YouTubers: Consistently Wrong?
The YouTube Rabbit Hole: A Personal Hell
I was reading about the best YouTube channels, and it's the same old names. Coin Bureau, Benjamin Cowen… Digital Asset News. All supposedly "reliable." But reliable doesn't mean *right*. It just means consistently… something. Consistently boring? Consistently shilling the same garbage everyone else is? I don't know. One such list can be found in "
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And don't think I'm not aware of the irony here. I'm ranting about YouTube "experts" while simultaneously writing an article *about* YouTube "experts." The hypocrisy is offcourse not lost on me. But hey, at least I'm upfront about my cynicism. These other guys? They hide it behind a veneer of "education."
YouTube's "Helpful" Algorithm: A Personalized Hellscape
The Algorithm's Trap
The article I was reading (before I started ranting, sorry, got sidetracked) mentioned the YouTube algorithm. How it's supposed to "help" you find new content. Yeah, it helps you find *more of the same crap* you were already watching. It's an echo chamber designed to reinforce your existing biases and keep you glued to the screen. Congratulations, you're now trapped in a personalized hellscape of crypto speculation and bad advice.
Bankless is apparently a portal to "Ethereum-native narratives." What the hell does that even mean? Sounds like something a cult leader would say. And Andrei Jikh "bridges traditional finance with a crypto mindset." Translation: he's trying to sell you on the idea that crypto is just like the stock market, except with more scams and rug pulls.
Then again, maybe I'm being too harsh. Maybe some of these channels are genuinely trying to help people. But let's be real, the incentives are all wrong. Views equal money. Hype equals views. Honest analysis? Not so much.
So, What's the Real Story?
It's all a grift. Every last bit of it.
