name: Matt Greenspan
Anonymous: Not
Twitter Followers: 48,000
Known for: The “face” of eToro for years, Greenspan is a rare moderate voice on Crypto Twitter.
Who is this person?
The amiable but cynical Mati Greenspan was a well-known crypto market commentator in publications such as Forbes, Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal as a senior market analyst for eToro until he struck out on his own by founding the research and advisory firm Quantum Economics in 2019. He has been in the Top Cointelegraph’s 100 Famous People in Blockchain for the last two years.
Unlike croissants and anime whales on Twitter, Greenspan takes personal responsibility for his opinions, which may explain why he’s less bolshie and provocative than some. With 48,000 followers, Greenspan doesn’t have the largest account but offers market insights and knowledgeable alpha.
His slightly obsessive attitude towards crypto comes from working as a market analyst in the 2000s and watching “the financial crisis from an insider’s perspective.”
He believes that we “have the power to change the traditional financial industry” in the next five to 10 years.
How did he become so popular on Twitter?
Greenspan joined Twitter in 2012, the same year he started as a market analyst at eToro. His former boss pushed everyone in the company to start an account and gave him 1 BTC for his trouble.
Greenspan is one of the few who took up the offer of free Bitcoin, and he sees it as the start of his journey down the crypto rabbit hole. His followers grew through interviews with major media outlets, where he sometimes posted or quoted tweets.
He began to gather 10,000 followers, and only after famous figures such as the host of Crypto Banter, Ran Neuner, endorsed him on Twitter, his profile began to rise dramatically, and his followers jumped from 3,000 to 10,000.
Greenspan figured if it worked once, it would work again, and he remembers contacting “a close friend and saying, ‘Hey, can you give me an endorsement?'”
What do you want?
Don’t expect “laser eyes up to $100K” content from Greenspan. He explains that he is “cynical and sarcastic” but says his skepticism protects him from being “rude” or “duped” and is not afraid to call bullshit when he sees it.
“If I put out information that I later find out is false information, I will definitely expose it.”
Twitter beef
As a more moderate voice, Greenspan is involved in quite a few moderate fights, especially with hardcore fans of multiple currencies who don’t think Greenspan is hardcore enough about multiple currencies.
Light beef: Saifedean Ammous, author of Bitcoin Standard.
Saifedean Ammous tweeted asking one good reason why Bitcoin’s rigidity and reluctance to change were not entirely amazing. Greenspan gave some and it was blocked.
But if you haven’t been blocked by Ammous, you’re not trying. We won’t even display the tweet because no one will see it.
Light beef: Pete Rizzo, editor of Bitcoin Magazine
Greenspan responded to a tweet by Bitcoin Magazine’s Pete Rizzo about Bitcoin Conference 2021 enthusiastically calling it “the biggest crypto conference ever!”
Rizzo corrected him saying “*Bitcoin*” and hinted at the correct terminology: “It’s a Bitcoin conference, about Bitcoin. Bitcoin is subjective and that’s why it’s used as an adjective.
In the replies, various acolytes said they blocked Greenspan because he had a “low IQ” or “was a scammer,” while one anon account threatened him, saying, “Watch back bro.”
Medium Rare Beef: The LINK Marines
Greenspan issued a public service announcement that “anyone who has held LINK since the beginning, now at $19, you should make a profit.”
This started a firestorm of reaction from the LINK frog army. “Nobody understands finance and trading,” he said, adding that the type of crypto enthusiast seems to want to hold the asset forever and never make a profit.
Chainlink’s price has dropped 74% since Greenspan’s PSA.
Best quality beef: Hexicans
Hex fans are outraged as they call the project a scam and predict founder Richard Heart Win will go to jail.
Greenspan spent several days arguing with the Hexicans about the fraud allegedly originating or otherwise from Hex in the midst of frequent claims that Greenspan himself was a scammer who “burned FTX,” which he said was a lie.
So, the two opposing sides call each other scammers – it’s the perfect Crypto Twitter war.
If nothing else, this shows that Greenspan is unlikely to have a bone in his closet, as it exposes how @RichardHeartWin took down the now disgraced Australian influencer @AlexSaundersAU when he followed up with the same accusation against Hex.
Twitter likes
Greenspan took a rather gloomy view of most of Crypto Twitter and said it was “disgusting” the number of accounts run by scam artists and manipulators.
But he is now a huge fan of Coffeezilla (334,000 Twitter followers) after watching an interview with Sam Bankman-Fried. Until he watched the interview, he said, “It’s easy to give SBF the ‘benefit of the doubt’ or to fall because it’s all a ‘mistake.'” But the Coffezilla interview reveals the main SBF side of the story. publications, such as The New York Times, do not disclose.
Examples of tweets
Looking forward
Greenspan thought Twitter was headed in the wrong direction even before Elon Musk took over.
“It becomes very easy for bad actors to game the system. Personal information, influence options or simply control the conversation are all for the highest bidder on Web2.
However, he said he recently managed to use Twitter and his newsletter to raise twice the amount of funding he had targeted for a Bitcoin mining facility in Texas, which he prided himself on during a bear market and without venture capital funding.
This was achieved “within hours” by Greenspan tweeting to his followers on May 24: “If anyone has balls of steel and $50K to invest, I have the deal of a lifetime for you.”
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