All you needed to do to take advantage of OP's marketing efforts was to buy and hold some bts.

I did that, but not thanks to matttrainer. He wasn't asking me for BTS to "get in early" on his project, he was asking for USD.

the naysayers and trolls are calling something a "scam" because they don't understand it.

What is there to understand based on his seminar? Just blindly trust someone with my money? Why are you being so ridiculously sided with someone who behaved so unprofessionally, not to mention the post of promises of big profits and examples of "newbie grandmas" making a ton of money screams scam. We are already sold on blockchain technology and understand the advantages it provides and the difference between something being open-source and clear to the public instead of this Nigerian Scammer/ Onecoin Scamming level of bullshit.