Welcome to BitBoy Crypto!
My name is Ben.
We're here in Times Square.
Why are we in Times Square on the way back from Dubai?
Stopped for a layover.
Custom takes forever.
You miss your flight.
Now, probably not going to get back in the studio aiming for Thursday.
It has been absolutely a crisis up here in New York
with all these flights that have been canceled.
So definitely sucks.
I want to be back in the studio.
I'll probably call into the show again tomorrow like I did today.
Today, I want to talk on this episode,
I'm going to relay a few--
some updates about BEN Coin on this video.
And we'll do that towards the end
because I already kind of spoke about it earlier today when I called in.
But what I want to talk about is what we're doing for holders
who lost money in my Twitter hack.
So, if you didn't know,
my Twitter was hacked about two weeks ago or so.
Maybe it was about three weeks ago now.
And the hacker posted a wallet address for Ethereum
pretending I was doing some kind of token,
and they sent a bunch of money in.
And the number I've been hearing is somewhere between $300,000 and $700,000 that was taken.
A lot of that in BEN Coin.
The hacker took the BEN Coin and immediately began dumping it,
like he did with everything else, you know.
Wasn't necessarily discriminatory towards BEN Coin.
But hated to see it for holders obviously.
And, you know, it's one of these things where there's a balance here.
And the balance we have to talk about is the balance in between
responsibility and reward.
Because the fact is,
if you got hacked,
that means that not only did you connect your wallet,
or, excuse me, not only did you click the link,
you went to the website,
you hit another button to connect your wallet,
and then your NFTs and your crypto was drained.
It was very sad.
Hated to watch it from the sidelines.
I couldn't even go on Twitter and say anything about it
because my account was taken.
And I really hated it.
But we want to be careful that we don't--
we don't want to reward people that use poor security, right?
The reason why my crypto is not hacked during that SIM card swap
is because I learned a lesson earlier on
about not connecting your phone number to your email address.
And that saved me.
But if every time you went and clicked on a malicious link,
you lost money,
you got your money back,
then you're not really learning.
So here's what we're doing.
We are creating a security, a very basic level security course
that everybody who wants their money back,
that got hacked--
and I can't guarantee we're going to be able to pay the NFTs back.
It depends on how many forms come back in and stuff like that.
But what we're going to do, by the way, I guess I should go and say this.
And we'll talk a little bit more about this.
We're going to launch an NFT.
Not this week.
It's probably going to be about a month.
We're going to launch an NFT.
And that NFT is going to be--
it's going to serve two purposes.
No. 1, we're going to strap on all kinds of cool stuff onto it.
Benefits, if you will, from some of our BEN Coin partners.
And so, you know, from everything, from some discounts in some different places
to, you know, maybe some free tokens.
We'll see what happens.
But we're going to give a lot of benefit with this NFT.
But you're getting the benefit,
but what this is really is the community supporting the community.
So if you haven't been hacked,
and you've done well,
then chip in.
Buy some of those NFTs.
The money is going to go directly towards those holders.
We'll have to see how much we raise.
It's kind of a guessing game on, you know, what we think it's going to be,
the final amount is.
But what I would say is,
everybody, make sure--
I'm going to put the Linktree from BEN Coin down below in the top of this description.
Go click on that Linktree.
And you will see the form you need to fill out.
This week,
this is your last week to fill it out in order to potentially get your funds back,
as long as we're able to sell the NFT, which I believe that we will.
So you're also going to have to make sure that you prove, by the way, it's your address
by sending a zero amount transaction.
Zero?
What am I looking for?
A zero crypto transaction, zeroed out transaction,
whatever it's called.
So that way, we know that it is your wallet.
So you're going to have to verify that wallet.
So keep that in mind.
But back to the point here, okay?
Is that we want to balance teaching people through the security course
how not to let that happen again
but then understanding that we don't have to do this.
We do not have to give this money back.
I don't have this money.
We're going to have to come up with this money through the community
to pay people back who are hurt by that.
And, you know, I don't know if anybody else has done this,
but I feel very strongly that, you know, it was my Twitter account.
And it sucked.
And I don't feel responsibility.
Obviously, I was SIM card swapped.
But I feel compassion for the community.
And that's what it all boils down to.
So that's why I'm going to be doing it.
That's what we're going to be doing.
But you have to remember it's not a reward.
You're not getting rewarded.
You're getting your coins back.
And probably probably the prices have gone up.
We're going to have to give the price, by the way.
We're going to pay everyone back in ETH.
So no matter what you lost,
if it was BEN Coin, you're getting paid back in ETH.
Why?
Because if we give everybody BEN Coin back,
then they have the option to sell it when it's given back.
And some people may choose to do that.
So we're just going to make it easier for everybody
and we're going to supply ETH to pay people back.
In that way, if people want to come back and buy BEN Coin with that ETH,
they have the ability to do that.
If they don't, then they don't have to sell it.
So it's kind of a win-win, we feel like.
So, but you have to remember this is not about, you know.
Sometimes, in your heart, you just feel like it's the right thing.
And I feel like this is the right thing for us to do.
So we'll have more information on that.
We'll show you guys more about that.
Probably in about a month.
I'm not going to give you a date on that for sure.
We're going to definitely do it by the end of the summer.
So, hopefully, the price, you know, doesn't get too out of control.
We do have a lot of really cool stuff coming.
You guys may have seen there were several big buys today on BEN Coin.
I talked about while I was in Dubai, we talked with members of the royal family,
we talked with members of the government,
we met with the guy, the head of the DMCC.
So we're really excited about that.
We're going to continue that conversation.
And we're going to be doing something in cooperation with the DMCC
so that on the BEN Coin website,
we're going to actually put a description of how you move to Dubai
because there's a lot of people that don't quite understand the fees, the licensing.
You don't pay taxes over there,
but you do pay some fees and some licenses to get set up.
And there's a lot of third party middlemen that are going to try to step in and screw you,
charge you $50,000, $100,000 for really not doing much.
We're going to put the real information that you need to know when you go over there.
And I just tell everybody,
if you're in crypto, you've got to go visit Dubai.
It is absolutely phenomenal.
So we had tons of meetings.
We did--
we did continue some conversation with some of Drake's people.
We're not there yet.
So,
but we are still having those talks ongoing.
And, hopefully, you know, by the end of this year,
we're going to have something worked out there, we hope, so.
Is this a natural fit?
Him being sponsored by Stake.
Us being sponsored by Stake.
Still progressing with the Stake conversation as well.
We got several exchange listings coming up.
Those are going to also help give the stability maybe
for Stake to go ahead and make the decision to put it on there.
Of course, you guys know, I am sponsored by Stake.
If you want to check out bitboycrypto.com/stake,
you guys can sign up on the left side if you're American,
on the right side if you're international.
Make sure you go to the right side by your jurisdiction and your laws.
A lot of people enjoy playing there.
I think it's a fun thing to do.
And guess what?
You can trade with crypto there.
So pretty cool stuff that you can do on other sites.
Yeah, you can deposit in Bitcoin on other, you know, sites,
online gaming sites or, you know, casino sites, whatever it might be.
But you can't play with it.
Here at Stake, you can actually play with crypto, which is really cool.
So the point is,
lastly but not least here,
we've got, you know,
it looks like we got some more big investors coming towards Bitcoin here-
BEN Coin, excuse me, here very soon.
I am right here in New York City.
If I was here next week,
our billboards are probably going to be up.
As of right now, they're not.
So they will be up probably pretty soon.
We got all the artwork done for them.
So really excited about that.
And it's not about necessarily promoting BEN Coin through Times Square,
even though we will do that.
It is going to be about promoting messages around crypto, right?
Be everywhere now.
You know,
should you trust the financial system?
Things like that, that's really what we want to drive home.
So, you know, we had the first several of what we believe are going to be, you know, big buys.
We had a lot of talks with a lot of really important people in Dubai.
And some of those people have committed to, you know, start doing some, you know,
buying some market buys for BEN Coin here over the next, you know, maybe a week or so.
So we are really excited to see that.
And, you know, I say this,
I think, this week, you're going to see the chart blow through some of that resistance,
the chart blow through some of those pain points
where people have been selling because they've been profitable.
And I think that, you know, selling when you're profitable is good,
but, of course, long-term holding is the way every founder wants everybody do.
Well, I'm not founder. Excuse me.
Every chairman or founder or CEO of any coin or stock,
they're going to tell you, like, "Yeah, we don't want you to just hold on forever."
But we really believe the prospects of this project are very high.
We do believe billion-dollar market cap is in the future in the bull run at least.
And I hope you see that belief that we have in what we're doing here.
It's going to be very special.
And I think that when people see some of the plans were going to be unveiling
over the next couple of months,
we've already got next year planned out,
and, you know, it's one of these things where people are going to be
I think very excited when they see some of the stuff we're putting together.
So,
that's all we got from New York.
No more drama.
We're drama-free here.
We're drama-free here on the channel.
BEN Coin is a drama-free coin.
Just know that.
Never bringing in any outside community drama into what's going on with BEN Coin.
So you guys have my word on that.
I worked very hard to bite my tongue several times,
but I will be biting my tongue.
If you know what I mean, you know what I mean.
If you don't, then ask somebody.
That's all I got.
Be blessed.
BitBoy out.