The popular Golden State Warriors point guard, Stephen Curry,
asked his 15.5 million followers for some “advice” about crypto. Curry
said he was “just getting started” and a great number of people shared
advice with the professional basketball player.
Stephen Curry Gets ‘Advice’ From Crypto Twitter
Well known athletes, celebrities, and musicians worldwide have been
getting into digital currencies and asking fans for pointers. Recently,
Bitcoin.com News reported
on the American rapper Busta Rhymes asking about cryptocurrencies and
whether or not he should “buy in.” Former heavyweight boxing champion
Mike Tyson asked his fans whether they preferred bitcoin (BTC) or ethereum (ETH). The “Legally Blonde” star, actress Reese Witherspoon, told her 2.9 million Twitter followers that she just bought ethereum. Witherspoon said:
Just bought my first ETH. Let’s do this #cryptotwitter
Now the star point guard for the Golden State Warriors, Stephen Curry,
has tweeted about cryptocurrencies and is looking for advice. “Just
getting started in the crypto game… y’all got any advice?” Curry asked
on September 7. Of course, Curry got a lot of responses from crypto
supporters shilling their favorite blockchain-based assets. One person
said he should ignore what people on crypto Twitter say. “Yes. Ignore
all Twitter crypto advice,” the person replied to Curry. A number of others used the opportunity to ask the Golden State Warriors star for an interview about crypto.
Microstrategy CEO Speaks Up, Tribalistic Crypto Comments and Shilling Taint Conversation
Microstrategy’s CEO Michael Saylor told
Curry to direct message him if he needed. “Steph, I spent more than a
thousand hours considering this question and chose bitcoin,” Saylor
said. “So far, I have purchased more than $3 billion in BTC
because I think it’s the future of digital property. I have posted tons
of free bitcoin education on hope.com (or DM me).” Alongside commentary
of people telling Curry why he should buy this or that crypto asset,
bitcoin maximalists — as per usual — and those who support a variety of
alternative blockchains, had to throw in tribalistic shade comments and
argue in Curry’s Twitter thread.
The finance writer Frances Coppola said “don’t” to Curry’s tweet and the Human Rights Foundation’s Alex Gladstein remarked:
“Consider making small gifts in Bitcoin to charities that you care
about and support with the condition that they can’t spend it for 4
years.” Numerous people commented on the fact that Curry had a Bored Ape
Yacht Club (BAYC) non-fungible token (NFT) as his Twitter profile
picture. While some loved the BAYC profile pic, others showed distaste
for the NFT picture.
“Take the silly ape off your profile, it’s like waving around and
idiot flag,” the well-known bitcoin artist dubbed ‘Fractal Encrypt’ wrote.
“Next do intense research and learn about the Bitcoin vs. sh**coin
dichotomy,” the artist added. In contrast to comments like that, NFT
fans shilled their favorite BAYC NFTs and told the professional
basketball player to look into other NFT collections.
With all the tribalism, the shilling of coins and different NFT
collections, probably the best advice Stephen Curry got from Twitter was
to “Ignore all Twitter crypto advice.” At the time of writing, that
specific reply to Curry has close to 20,000 likes and hundreds of
retweets.
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