Jake is not the only social media star to have lost money in crypto. Logan Paul admitted on his podcast in May that he had lost more than $500,000 by investing in the ill-fated Luna token, while fellow YouTube star KSI had lost about $3 million in the same investment.
Jake has also been under scrutiny in 2022 for shilling a number of Non-Fungible Token (NFT) and crypto rug pulls, where projects make big promises to would-be investors, take their money, then fail to deliver. Perhaps this is a sign that, with his crypto investments sitting so far underwater, Jake is feeling the pinch and looking for alternate sources of income.
Pseudo-anonymous crypto sleuth Coffeezilla has reportedly been able to connect Paul to crypto promotions and projects totaling $2.2 million.
The Outlook For Jake Paul’s Crypto Investments
While Paul has made substantial sums by promoting often doomed crypto projects, there is every chance that he sunk some portion of his fortune into these schemes, not realizing the scam at hand. In that sense, his losses could be ugly.
But Jake is known to have been a long-time fan of what has so far proven to be crypto’s safest bet, Bitcoin. He has in the past claimed that he invested his entire earnings from his first Vine brand deal in the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization back when he was sixteen and it was trading around $100 per token.
Though, as of Sunday, BTC/USD is trading nearly 60% lower versus its November 2021 highs at $69,000, Paul would still be up around 280x on this investment.
Bitcoin’s struggles in the near-term look for from over, as global economic conditions worsen and persistently high inflation forces major central banks like the US Federal Reserve to press ahead with monetary tightening regardless.
But Bitcoin’s long-term outlook looks very promising, with the global adoption of cryptocurrency payments/investing still looking to be very much in its early stage, and as narratives of bitcoin being a…
