Welcome to BitBoy Crypto!
My name is Ben.
Thank you to our sponsor Stake.
We don't have any of the Stake ads tonight.
Not because you asked for them.
But because I just had to make this quick video for you guys.
I'm running late.
I didn't have a regular video,
but I wanted to update you on what I've been doing,
why the video didn't come out
and what
should be very good news for a lot of you.
You guys know I was hacked on June 10, 2023, Saturday night.
John Deaton was hacked by the same people the week before,
on June 4, his birthday.
And Peter Schiff was hacked that weekend.
Several other people were hacked.
All connected.
All the same people who did it.
SIM card swapping is how they did it.
And I will tell you this, guys.
Been on the phone with the Drewth tonight.
Got a piece of evidence sent to me.
We use that evidence to find out so much stuff.
And I can tell you,
unequivocally,
we know the who, what, where, why and how.
We know it.
And we are going to be pursuing all of this relentlessly.
I don't let stuff go, guys.
You wronged me?
You apologize, I'll accept your apology and move on.
I'll never let it go.
I'm a bulldog through and through.
I was never going to let this go.
There's other things that happened
that maybe I haven't gotten my vengeance for yet,
but it's always going to come
because I do not let stuff go.
I bully the bullies.
And these people are going to find out
when you come at Ben Armstrong,
you better knock him out first shot.
You better render him helpless.
Because if there's a breath in my body,
I can assure you I'm coming to right the wrong.
I didn't lose money in this hack.
The BitSquad did.
A lot of people lost BEN Coin.
And then the hackers dumped BEN Coin,
which also makes me mad.
Made the community more mad than made me, though.
Guys, this isn't about me.
This is about you.
This is about the BitSquad being family.
This is about me pursuing something
that's going to take my time, my energy, my resources and my money
that really does nothing for me at the end of the day.
Multi-year lawsuit-- this is going to be a battle.
I don't want to do it.
I don't want to.
It'd be easier not to.
But I can tell you,
I told you I would do it.
Why?
Because I care.
And I want to get your vengeance.
I want to get your money back.
From the source.
In the meantime, we can figure something out.
You know, more on that in the coming weeks probably.
But we just need--
we're still developing the plan to get people paid back.
We're not responsible for it at all.
People that clicked the links are unfortunately responsible for themselves.
They're self-sovereign.
They should have used better security.
But I also have empathy and sympathy because it happened to me before
many years ago when I first got into crypto.
So it can happen to people. I understand it.
But you also have to learn the lesson you're responsible for clicking those links.
I'm bailing out a little bit by trying to help you,
but you all are my people.
If it's not for you all, I don't have anything.
I have nothing without the BitSquad.
That's why I love talking to people at meetups, in public and in conferences.
You're just as important to me as I am to you.
You know me a little better than I know you.
But if you watch this show every day,
if you're in BEN Nation,
you're in the BitSquad,
if you're one of the 30% of people that watch channel and don't subscribe,
first of all, change that,
subscribe to the channel right now,
and second of all,
I appreciate you
and I will fight for you and I will go to bat for you.
And so we'll have more updates on this in the coming weeks.
Hopefully.
Maybe--
it might take a month or two to get you guys some updates,
but just know
that the case has been cracked.
Now, I can't promise you that the funds are still there.
But I can tell you that we're going to try to find them.
And I can tell you
I don't give up on stuff.
And so if it can be done, we're going to do it.
The lawsuit's another way we can recover money.
And now we have a very clear path for who we need to sue.
Several, several different people we're going to be suing in this.
For you.
Not for me.
It hurt my reputation, I guess that's the argument.
But you lost the money.
And for people that lost NFTs, we can't pay the NFTs back.
But if we can get together an amount that people lost on the NFTs as well,
we include that in the lawsuit and try to pay people back.
So the point is this.
I had an urgent matter come up tonight,
but it's very relevant to what's going on here on the channel,
very relevant to the scammy world that we live in when it comes to these hackers.
And just know we are coming to hold these people accountable.
And I'm never scared.
And they're going to find out
the bite is worse than the bark.
That's all I got.
Be blessed.
BitBoy out.