Even walking Bitconnect meme Carlos Matos is now calling bitcoin a scam

You know you're in trouble when you've lost Carlos Matos.

The walking meme made famous by his unbridled enthusiasm for Bitconnect, a cryptocurrency project strongly resembling a Ponzi scheme that shut down its lending and exchange platform in January, is now here to offer some measured words of caution. Namely, stay the hell away from bitcoin. 

"Bitcoin Is A Scam," he tweeted on October 26. "Sell Everything It's NEVER Going Back Up"

Bitcoin Is A Scam. Sell Everything It's NEVER Going Back Up

— Carlos Matos (@CarlosMatos80) October 26, 2018

Matos, of course, is best known for promoting a likely scam himself. He launched into meme infamy in October of 2017 after a video of him singing Bitconnect's praises went viral.  Read more...

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