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Paul Denino (born: September 24, 1994), better known online as Ice Poseidon, is an American YouTuber and Twitch livestreamer who is credited for popularizing the livestreaming genre on both websites, primarily streaming the games Runescape amongst IRL streaming. One of the largest content creators of his time, he would often be ranked as one of the most viewed streamers on Twitch.
In January 2022, Ice Poseidon would fall from grace after he was exposed by Coffeezilla for knowingly scamming people out of their cryptocurrency and theft of at least $5,000,000 worth of his investor's funds, as well as gloating about it and refusing to return the money sans a small amount.
Content[]
Paul's earliest videos were of RuneScape, specifically short videos of experiments and tutorials. He moved on to vlogging himself on dates, pranks, self defense courses, gambling, attending Vidcon 2017, meeting his heroes such as Philip DeFranco and eating hot peppers. A lot of his videos involved his fans, who he dubbed the "Purple Army", fighting them at the UFCx event and reacting to clips they sent. Some of videos feature robotics.
Collaborations[]
From December 2016 - June 2019 Denino was a part of NRG eSports' Old School Runescape roster; he left after allegations of sexual abuse were made against Brent Kaskel.
Controversies[]
Twitch ban[]
When Twitch first unveiled its "IRL streaming" section, Paul would stream Pokemon Go. He was banned on launch day for 45 days for showing a phone number.
During a Twitch livestream of his flight on American Airlines Flight 458 in Phoenix, Arizona, Denino was forcibly removed from the plane. It was later revealed that a fan had called the airlines and made a false bomb threat under his name[1][2]. Twitch permanently banned Paul for this, so he moved to YouTube to stream. For a short while Paul would also stream on Mixer, Twitch's competitor, and held his 5-Day long game show, Scuffed Brother, (a parody of CBS' Big Brother) there, garnering 500,000,000 sparks from viewer voting and 350,000 views in total. In June 2020, Mixer announced it was shutting down, so Denino decided to go back to YouTube. He was one of the biggest creators on Mixer, and as of June 12, 2020, had 39,995 followers and 2,225,145 views in total.
Purple Army[]
Even on YouTube, people in close proximity to Paul would also be victims of harassment from the Purple Army, often being phoned and swatted[3]. Two subreddits dedicated to Ice Poseidon, r/IcePoseidon and r/IcePoseidon2, were taken down to abusive behaviour. Ice Poseidon's Discord was also critisized for heavy use of racist and homophobic slurs.
Trip to Switzerland[]
Denino has travelled to many places across America for his streaming. When he was in Zurich, Switzerland, Denino was featured in a tabloid magazine. In the magazine he discussed how he was evicted from multiple hotels and breaking Swiss streaming laws[4].
Legal issues[]
The FBI raided Denino's Los Angeles residence on the morning of March 21, 2019. Shortly afterwards the Cx network he developed folded. Him and Sam Pepper also got arrested for infiltrating Vidcon while streaming themselves in a Trojan horse.[5]
Cryptocurrency[]
Paul developed a crypotcurrency coin known as "Cx Coin" and advertised to his fans. As soon as his investors lent him the funds, he embezzled the money for himself. He was confronted by Coffeezilla, who was suspicious about the scam, so Paul gave him his wallet information to prove his innocence. But when Coffeezilla joined Ice Poseidon's Telegram, he found out that his real wallet information was vastly different and Ice was scamming people. He confronted Ice once again, who bragged about stealing the money, even at one point saying “I could give the money back, it’s in my power to do that. But I’m going to look out for myself and not do that”. He would further claim that he had to take the money or it would be rendered useless, and offered to give a small fraction of it back to the investors.
On the final day of January 2022, Coffeezilla would upload a video exposing Ice Poseidon[6]. Two days later, he uploaded the full 3-hour interview he had with Ice Poseidon[7].
On February 2, 2022, Paul would respond to the situation with a Twitlonger[8] that read "First of all, I did not advertise cxcoin to my casual fans who don't know anything about crypto and would be extremely vulnerable to a highly volatile market. I only advertised it to people in the cryptosphere, and fans who KNEW about crypto and understood what they were getting into. The most "advertising" i did to casual fans was when I put the donation terminal of cxcoin in my livestream's description. (viewers could donate crypto and cxcoin to me, instead of using paypal or cash)
On the whole video, there was not one single mention of the main product which has been fully functional for months, Eztip4.me - I had even used this on some of the streams, all of this was built from scratch.
734 BNB is 30% of the Presale amount (including Dxsale fees), this is stated CLEARLY on the Presale page as 70% would automatically be locked until the liquidity unlock date. This is done directly by Dxsale, I do not have any control or can not modify the LP prior to the unlocking date.
Removing the LP essentially was done so the buyback wallet is more efficient and the increase in price would be of a higher % in comparison to having used the wallet when there was a ton of BNB in the LP. I did not inject 100% of the buyback wallet since there were bots frontrunning the buys and I decided to do it bit by bit, keep in mind that the buyback wallet can ONLY be used to buy $CXCOIN and burn those tokens, it can not be withdrawn or spent in a different way!
I just verified and the presale rate is pretty much the same as of right now, this means that if you had invested 1 BNB during the presale, you could get around the same value in BNB now. You can verify this by going to: https://dxsale.app/app/v2_9/defipresale?saleID=996&chain=BSC
As opposed to real "rug pulls" or "scams", the CXCOIN price is barely off the launch price, prior to removing a part of the LP, I made sure that it would be enough to back up any sales in case remaining holders decide to sell.
Also, when I took a portion of the LP (nearly $300,000) there wasn't many "real" holders or much money invested in the token by that point. Top holder has 15 bnb worth of tokens, and holder #50 has 0.6 bnb worth of tokens. It was completely unnecessary to have $400,000 in the LP ($264k in LP, 150k in buyback function) and the money was at risk of getting devalued due to the crypto markets dropping. So I took some of the LP ($250k or so) and used the buyback function to put $80k into the LP, with 100k still in the buyback function that also goes to the LP.
With that said, no money was "stolen" or "scammed" that is very misleading as people have always been able to sell and there's still enough money to back those sales up, even though there's not many "real" (non bots, large wallets) left. I did make $300,000, but it was NOT at the expense of any fans or holders.
last quick note, not everyone lost money on cxcoin, people who bought at a good price towards the beginning, actually made some money. I warned people before I launched it that it was an extremely risky and volatile thing and to make sure they understand when to buy, if they choose. There were some people who ended up buying fake cxcoins, and i refunded their money out of kindness, i probably spent $10,000 doing that. I know it's not relevant, but i just want to show that my actions on cxcoin were not malicious.
I hope these points clarify some of the misunderstandings and justify my actions. At all times, I will guarantee EVERY $CXCOIN holder to be able to sell their tokens if they wish to"
Paul would follow up the Twitlonger by tweeting "the post has a lot of terminology and might be hard to grasp if you're a noob to crypto, but everything is verifiable and I encourage people to go check for themselves. I did not "steal" or "scam" anyone. nor did i make money on the expense of others. i dont really expect anyone to side with me, because the narrative of me stealing from my fans is much more juicy, but that's not the reality and i hope some people can see that."[9][10]
This response was blasted by Coffeezilla for lying (both blatantly and by omission) and trying to justify scamming his fans. He was also critisized once again for not giving the money back.
Boxing career[]
Professional career[]
Ice Poseidon vs. Brandon Buckingham[]
On October 23, 2022, Misfit Boxing announced that Ice Poseidon will be making his boxing debut against American YouTuber Brandon Buckingham on the undercard of MF & DAZN X Series 003: Deen the Great vs. Walid Sharks on the November 19 at Moody Center in Austin, Texas.[11][12] Ice Poseidon was defeated by Brandon Buckingham via 1st round KO.[13]
D-Generation Ice (Ice Poseidon & Anthony Vargas) vs. Los Pineda Coladas (Luis Alcaraz Pineda & BDave)[]
On February 26, 2023, it was announced by Misfits Boxing that Ice Poseidon will take part in the first ever tag team boxing match on the undercard of MF & DAZN X Series 005: Jay Swingler vs. NichLmao at the Telford International Centre in Telford, England on March 4, 2023. Poseidon will team with American YouTuber Anthony Vargas and their team name is 'D-Generation Ice'. Their opponents are Mexican professional boxer Luis Alcaraz Pineda and American YouTuber BDave named as 'Los Pineda Colads'.[14] They lost after Pineda and BDave both hit a flurry of shots onto Denino, before the ref called the bout, leading both Denino and Vargas to lose via TKO.
Awards[]
Paul was nominated for the 2016 Golden Gnome Awards in the "Best OSRS streamer" category, and the 2017 eSports Industry Awards in the "Streamer of the Year" category; he won none of them.
PersonallLife[]
He was born in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. In late December 2016, after his first Twitch ban, he moved to California for his Twitch career. According to his Twitter account, as of January 2022 he resides in Austin, Texas.
Paul has autism.[15]
Trivia[]
- His username comes from a username generator website he used when he was 12 years old.
References[]
- ↑ https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/central-phoenix/authorities-investigating-threat-called-in-to-flight-from-lax-to-sky-harbor
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKaRyfiPniw
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH4J9Jhxa9M
- ↑ https://twitter.com/realiceposeidon/status/1052610834386415616?lang=en
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imc-i-VYi8g
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7MaoD4tJuc
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILSvHj2Br2c
- ↑ https://twitter.com/REALIcePoseidon/status/1488674855549603842
- ↑ https://twitter.com/REALIcePoseidon/status/1488675396430311425
- ↑ https://twitter.com/REALIcePoseidon/status/1488675398149976067
- ↑ https://twitter.com/MisfitsBoxing/status/1584291554306375680?cxt=HHwWgICqscqxxPwrAAAA
- ↑ BRANDON BUCKINGHAM VS. ICE POSEIDON: DATE, START TIME, TV CHANNEL AND LIVE STREAM
- ↑ DEEN THE GREAT SHOCKS WALID SHARKS IN THIRD-ROUND TKO AFTER BEING DROPPED TWICE AT MF & DAZN: X SERIES 003
- ↑ BDAVE & LUIS PINEDA VS. ICEPOSEIDON & ANTHONY VARGAS: BOXING TAG TEAM MATCH DATE, START TIME, TV CHANNEL AND LIVE STREAM
- ↑ https://twitter.com/realiceposeidon/status/824832429399486464?lang=en
