I was hesitant at first to share my disgust for the Bitcoin Magazine ordinals auction because they are a well known bitcoin business and I’ve launched a strategic agency to support bitcoin only businesses.

Then I remembered that my services are for ethical BITCOIN ONLY businesses.

I will never help market scams nor align myself and my agency with companies that promote what I believe to be scams.

The CEO of Bitcoin Magazine said “I'm so easy to manipulate. If you want me to do something, just threaten to cancel me for doing it. Guaranteed results.”. From a business perspective, it sounds like he is saying that he’s using the publication to intentionally antagonize his target demographic, which is counterproductive at best. Really I think this was just another example of incredibly poor word choice on his part.

There are bitcoiners out there that do not have Twitter or community, that turn to a publication like BM to provide them with well vetted information about what’s going on in the bitcoin ecosystem. By promoting activities that attempt to convince people that spending more than one sat to obtain one sat will ever be profitable is to encourage scamming and shitcoinery that I cannot align myself with as a bitcoiner, as a customer, or as a consultant in this industry.

There are a lot of wonderful people, and incredibly talented and intelligent bitcoiners that work for BM, and this is not a reflection on them. Get paid for your work. However, it is a reflection on their brand. If they ever would like to revisit the direction of their brand, I would love to help them pivot into a truly bitcoin only code of conduct.

For retainer fee.