Name: Simon Dixon
Anonymous: No
Twitter Followers: 109.1K
Known for: Co-founder of Bank To The Future and the dude who wrote the first-ever revealed ebook on Bitcoin.
Who is that this man anyway?
Simon Dixon is a real Bitcoin O.G. He is the writer of the first-ever revealed ebook on Bitcoin on the planet Bank to the Future, which was launched in February 2012, and has splashed over $1 billion in money investing in “over 100” totally different crypto corporations, together with Kraken, Ripple Labs and — err — Celsius.
Dixon stumbled upon Bitcoin when he was “deep in debt” after his formidable try to begin a conventional financial institution didn’t go to plan. “I failed at that job,” he admits.
Instead of falling by the wayside, Dixon ultimately based BnkToTheFuture, a web based funding platform that crowdsources non-public fairness funding, giving smaller-scale traders who can fulfill regulatory necessities in their very own international locations entry to early-stage however dangerous tech VC-style alternatives, with Celsius, Kraken, Bitfinex and Securitize amongst them.
In current occasions, he has “by chance grow to be the Chapter 11 man” as he appears to have psychic powers in predicting what crypto agency goes to enter Chapter 11 subsequent.
“I used to be telling everybody that Celsius was going to go bankrupt earlier than it went [bankrupt]. I used to be the one calling out Digital Currency Group as an organization that’s in all probability going to go bankrupt. I [predicted] that BlockFi [would] go into Chapter 11.”
What led to Twitter fame?
Dixon constructed his 109,000 following organically and says he has “by no means actually invested vital time into offering content material for individuals.” But he’s been “advocating for Bitcoin since 2011,” and his followers grew over time via sharing content material on “constructing and defending your wealth utilizing Bitcoin,” and he says Bitcoin personally “remodeled” all his funds in life.
In current occasions, he has seen an inflow of followers resulting from his advocacy for victims who’ve misplaced their financial savings in current crypto alternate bankruptcies, particularly these from Celsius.
“This one was such a degree of fraud that I couldn’t preserve quiet.”
What to anticipate in his Twitter content material
While Dixon continues to supply helpful Bitcoin content material for the crypto neighborhood, lately, he’s been advocating for “an increasing number of individuals in these Chapter 11 Bankruptcies.”
“I began sharing content material on how one can optimize these chapter proceedings to take advantage of for collectors, and that appeared to result in lots of people wanting to hitch me on Twitter Spaces.”
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He is commonly seen motivating those that are dropping hope of ever getting their funds again from Celsius.
Dixon even managed to get Elon Musk on the notorious Twitter Space when he was “overlaying the FTX crash dwell” as traders had been suspending withdrawals.
It was chaos, as Musk had “simply accomplished the acquisition” of Twitter, too.
Dixon took benefit of the chance to ask Musk if “there was anyplace for Bitcoin on Twitter.”
“He was solely meant to be there for half-hour. He truly stayed on the house for about an hour.”
Oh yeah, and infrequently, he posts about his informal hangs with world leaders.
Here is Dixon pictured hanging out with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele.
Twitter Likes
Dixon likes to observe individuals on Twitter who even have a ardour for crypto via the nice and unhealthy occasions, not these simply making an attempt to make a buck from shilling shitcoins.
“I’m eager about folks that have remained constant to Bitcoin when it’s not cool to be constant to Bitcoin.”
Dixon stated that he’s a giant fan of the “old-fashioned” Andreas Antonopoulos, as he doesn’t get as “a lot credit score as he deserves at this time.”
He stated that Antonopoulos did loads of the exhausting work explaining Bitcoin in its early days, “when it was very exhausting to elucidate to individuals.”
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Twitter Beefs
Top Quality Beef: Alex Mashinsky
Despite Dixon’s excessive profile, he hasn’t had loads of public feuds.
This isn’t shocking contemplating he is a reasonably good and well-mannered dude.
His one and solely public beef is with the previous CEO of the now-defunct crypto lending alternate Celsius, Alex Mashinsky.
After the collapse of Celsius, Mashinsky was advised by his attorneys that “he’s not allowed to speak,” based on Dixon.
Dixon’s commentary on the Celsius chapter obtained on Mashinky’s nerves a lot that he determined to disregard his lawyer’s recommendation and “broke his silence” with a view to blame Dixon for “all of this fraud.”
Dixon stated that Mashinsky “created a conspiracy principle” that Dixon has the entire creditor’s cash and that he’s being paid by Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) to try to “take down Celsius.”
Dixon inspired his Twitter followers to casually go and sue Mashinsky, saying it might be a “worthwhile” asset to Celsius.
Future outlook
Dixon isn’t a fan of the Chapter 11 course of, which he believes is “scammy” and only one “ginormous cash seize” to steal consumer cash.
While Dixon is a large believer in Bitcoin, he doesn’t have any set worth predictions. He thinks in “phrases of four-year cycles” across the halvings, and proper now, he stated we’re “two years into the fourth cycle,” which is about surviving quantitative tightening.
He stated that this will likely be a tricky one as a result of we’ve by no means confirmed that Bitcoin can survive when {dollars} aren’t being printed endlessly.
The final stage will likely be about surviving central financial institution digital currencies, which if profitable, he believes Bitcoin can have “cemented itself as the shop of worth on the planet.”
“This goes to vary the world.”
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Ciaran Lyons
Ciaran Lyons is an Australian crypto journalist. He’s additionally a standup comic and has been a radio and TV presenter on Triple J, SBS and The Project.
