ben-cowen-risk-metric.md

Benjamin Cowen blocked me on Twitter for challenging his Risk Metric

It all started with this reply sent to Ben:

Ben replies:

It sounds like he didn't understand my criticism, so I clarified in a few more tweets.

In his members only video from yesterday, he was pointing out that the MVRV Z-score metric did not do a good job of identifying the April BTC all time high, whereas his risk metric did.

I agree with him that his risk metric did a good job in April:

However, it did not do well in November:

Moments later I notice this:

I also received a message from him asking me to cancel my premium membership, but it looks like he deleted it shortly afterwards.

I feel like my notes to him were respectful and in the spirit of technical discussion. Link to the initial tweet:

https://twitter.com/dharmatrade/status/1478122900536250368

I guess Ben's only interested in the mindless meme tweets and not serious discussion regarding his analysis (that I've paid $89 per month for).

Just wanted to share my experience. If you're a member or are thinking of becoming a member of his premium list, be careful not to challenge Ben or you may be blocked. I wouldn't be surprised if he also cancels my membership.

Reports from others

Since I posted my experience, I've received reports of others getting banned or being asked to leave the premium list for challenging Ben's views.

Example:

Another one:

Link to the archived post on reddit:

https://www.reveddit.com/v/CryptoCurrency/comments/rvf2fo/ben_cowen_blocked_me_on_twitter_for_challenging/?ps_after=1641254664%2C1641256896%2C1641259292%2C1641263940

Link to the original post (removed by mods):

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/rvf2fo/ben_cowen_blocked_me_on_twitter_for_challenging/

My review of Benjamin Cowen's 'Into The Cryptoverse' premium content membership.

https://youtu.be/fd1pM75xg0Q

The main issue is, that you violated the terms of your premium subscription. He blocked you right after you made premium content (you and others pay for) public by tweeting information out of a members only video.
By doing this you not only violated a contract. You can't missuse IP and expect people to keep up a dialog with you. Also he could argue in front of a court, that your actions had a negative impact on his income, which would be an easy case in the US with just your tweets and this markdown file as evidence.

Talking about violating contracts: You should be happy, that he just blocked you and canceled your subscription. He could also send a lawyer towards you and squeeze some money out of you because of your actions.

The reality is, he has to be able to prove that he took actions against people, who violate the terms of his premium subscriptions. If he does not do that, other premium users could sue him and try to get their money back after seeing your tweets.

Just because you are unable to see and understand the implications of your actions does not mean other people are bad or evil. Grow up and take responsibility for your actions before even thinking about blaming others.