Cryptoland UNMASKED! I think we found the REAL creator....

Today we travel back in time and look at Cryptoland. yes, that stupid island for crypto bros. and this time we think we found who the REAL creator of the project is!
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[@raafmaat]

oh man im so bummed this project fell through, it would have been so hilarious to actually follow the building of the island and the obvious disasters waiting to happen when people actually would start to live there! it would have been so funny to see all the videos about how horrible everything was planned and how people are getting stuck there for weeks without transport and stuff like that!

[@xman5393]

I'm not surprised, considering that they didn't even own the island let alone have any blueprints or designs for the layout of their "cryptopia"

[@Lundarian1]

Fyre festival 2.0, only worse, because Fyre festival only had to deal with temporary lodgings and infrastructure

[@MrSuntzu1000]

Indeed, it would have been Fyre Fest 2: crypto boogaloo.

[@nukiradio]

Nah. They would have become like that one Japanese business island, completely derelict in 2 years, followed by being overtaken by the cia

[@Lupus_Intus]

Firefest 2.0

[@Robinson_Crusoe]

I believe that "he sailed off to cryptoland" should become a general term describing mental conditions that arise from the blockchain.

[@how2pick4name]

It's the new version of "he's off with the fairies" =)

[@0Ciju0]

I like it, I'll be using it haha

[@112-DavidL]

or the latest meme :D

[@MassiveSwordAndCards]

He's out to lunch [at Cryptoland]!

[@Maeshalanadae]

Seriously. XD I so want this to become a popular general term for such helium-heads.

[@tripolarmdisorder7696]

So, I might know a guy who works for the army corps of engineers, in the realm of sanitation and water treatment. I sent him an image of the island and asked him if he thought that freshwater systems, sewage treatment, and all the pipes would even be possible on an island so small. He asked me where the island was, because apparently you can pipe sewage away from the island if the "mother" country permits it. I showed him. He said he laughed so hard he nearly pissed himself up. Apparently, Fiji has population caps on its smaller islands and just the employees and maintenance workers of Cryptoland would likely max it out. Thought I would share that with you.

[@williamdrum9899]

This is why any kind of "seasteading" or thing like it is a scam. All the habitable land on Earth right now is owned by somebody. It's the true "deflationary asset" as it were.

[@tech34756]

This just sounds more and more (allegedly) like the crypto equivalent of The Producers, we even got a ‘Springtime for Crypto’ out of it.

[@Morbacounet]

It would be hilarious if Max and Helena updated their LinkedIn profile and added Cryptoland as an acting performance.

[@DeliciousFriendHastur]

And them Callum reveal himself to be the mastermind behind it all

[@CallumUpton]

atleast let ME announce it

[@christianhoej1562]

@@CallumUpton I thought it was the spiffing brit doing something perfectly balanced?

[@feiren6418]

Gotta get them shadow kabal funds for spiff

[@Sniperbear13]

i thought Josh Strife was the one behind it all.

[@haverjr]

@@CallumUpton The Shadow Cabal strikes again.

[@tichyad213]

I still think its a good idea to send the crypto bros to an island.

[@dougla517]

Yeah, especially one prone to typhoons. It would maybe result in a wake-up call, or a life-changing concussion when they're thrown around

[@Gravewhisper]

So sad this didn't happen. I was really hoping for the Netflix documentary on this. We could have had a Fyre Fest 2 here, really a bummer we didn't get to see stranded rich crypto bros on an island without sewage facilities.

[@shagster1970]

The real crime was committed by those intro animators.

[@EinhanderSn0m4n]

In before we find out that's all on Kyle Chasse too.

[@TheSexhaver2625]

Nah his haircut

[@DavBotsArcade]

Who owns the tiles over cryptoland in earth2?.... The crypto-ception top keeps spinning.

[@yiannisgedeon9038]

i would love for this project to go through. and then see the randoms unleash chaos on the island with no security or police in ROFL. Fyre fest vol.2 can wait a bit longer

[@Mysticgamer]

Or bathrooms for that matter. It'll be a literal shit show.

[@onomatopoeia7505]

"Welcoin." That horrible attempt at a pun already deserved this project failing. Glad to see they followed through and threw in the towel at the least bit of resistance.

[@thunderspark1536]

"Welcum to the club!" Has the same energy

[@toomanyaccounts]

they uploaded more videos explaining their attempt at humor in the video.

[@Frostbytedigital]

Surprised they didn't call it All a coingruent living arrangement

[@Dong_Harvey]

@@Frostbytedigital at some point, they may be able to pay someone to fly out to Cryptoland to partake in a 'coinjugal visit'

[@minefoxc4015]

More like welCON and saluting people with Scam you later!

[@oliver_twistor]

As Kira says, "the blockchain never lies". Isn't this Chassé guy supposed to be a veteran of the crypto space?

[@ballehakan]

Experience doesn't necessarily that he learned from it.

[@onomatopoeia7505]

@@ballehakan This. In the Netherlands, they even made sure that, by law, you're obliged to add this to every investment advertisement: "Results from the past do not guarantee the same for the future."

[@Sniperbear13]

with how young Web3 is, i would really say that not very many people are really all that experienced; what with the tens of thousands of fools who fall for all those scams.

[@oliver_twistor]

@@onomatopoeia7505 Same in Sweden.

[@oliver_twistor]

@@ballehakan Very true. :D

[@ForgottenAesir]

To be fair, even cryptobros don't really understand how crypto works

[@asdfractal8115]

I absolutely love that the biggest reason crypto bros are being called out for the scams is the same reason they think crypto is so amazing - traceability. As Kira loves to say, the block chain don't lie.

[@dang.9209]

Didn't Kira already put a video out about this a while ago? Either way, that means two investigations into this found the same evidence and came to the same conclusion. Pretty damning for Kyle imo.

[@bopsie55]

Yeah he did but it's great that it's being found by multiple third parties and brought to more peoples attention. Also Kira from memory only glossed over how he came to the same conclusion

[@Leth368]

Yeah kira showed those eth transactions as well

[@kashmm]

When a nice guy like Callum calls you a "melon" it hurts more than usual. Good work bro, keep fighting the good fight.

[@Mriya6]

From the thumbnail I was really hoping it was going to be a member of KiraTV's shadow council

[@CallumUpton]

we are one

[@issamelarmi]

I really hope all these NFT scammers start getting heavy sentences so that they chill the fuck down... Keep up the righteous fight Callum!

[@Jokoko2828]

The amount of money you'd need to invest into turning that particular island into a place people can live on yearly is fucking absurd, oh and forget about having villas or other fancy buildings, everything would need to be dug-in concrete blocks with a bunch of stuff being underground like you're playing dwarf fortress. Why? Because like OP said, it's typhoons all year round there, no half-assed structure is going to survive that level of punishment on a island that small.

[@chadschmaltz9790]

The lack of weatherproofing was something I noticed about the animated movie they made and the sketches that were shown in one of their other videos. The animation showed a lot of open air areas, one of which was supposed to be where all the computers were supposed to be stored. Even without typhoons, computers being exposed to the ocean air and sand would be a constant nightmare.

[@mikoto7693]

The cost of regularly repairs from these typhoons would be be astronomical. But for me the amusing thing is the video promoting Cryptoland featured a casino. That’s a problem given that’s illegal in Fiji and had to walk it back. That shows how sloppy they were in designing this plan without managing to do simple and easy basic research.

[@calanm7880]

Has anyone found out who the animators/ voice actors/ production team for the CryptoLand cartoon were? I know they grabbed 3D models off the internet (Conny was from a short lived dodgy gambling app and the seagull they stole without permission, same for the inside model of apartment.. apparently the owner’s QR code is to the left of the door (on the right from where we view it), and the road approaching Blockchain Hills was a slightly repainted still from a game I think?), but I’m really wanting to know the story of how this was made but especially the commissioning customers and their requirements/ demands? Heck, who did the music even? I love that there were really incompetent BS merchants fronting this, but they managed to create one concrete “asset” - that animation. Or rather they assembled a team to produce it. I would love to hear that story! Ok you might not want it on your CV or to be associated with it publicly especially going into that profession (as animator/ actor/ musician) … for all the cringe content I think a lot of the movement and facial expression was pretty effective. Ironically I think it will always be a key internet moment, but there were talented folks in there - heck the voice actors may have been trying to posh a turd of a script, but they got it to shine in places! The “making of” story of this now legendary production must now be told!! ☺️❤️ Maybe one day a sequel… “Conny’s Confessions”? I know it’s wrong, but that scamming wee coin with those nightmare 👀, stole a little bit of my heart lol

[@PointsofData]

I'm betting they were all freelancers who don't want to say this was something they did. It was a scam after all.

[@Self-replicating_whatnot]

Cryptoland is a gift that keeps on shitting itself.

[@uncleclaps44]

What made me laugh the hardest about cyrptoland was Christopher doubling down and promising private yachts to everyone who invested and Elliana trying to shut him up. What was their idea for the sewerage system? hand them a golden shovel and have them shit in the sand haha. Not sure if its speculation but i recall Kyle: AKA the sleep paralysis demon (thanks kira, ill never unsee it) is now up for fraud charges in the usa, i could be wrong though.

[@Dong_Harvey]

Poop Trucks, like at Burj al Dubai

[@toomanyaccounts]

nothing that can be found that he is up on fraud charges.

[@112-DavidL]

@Callum Upton on the FBI website there is a anonymous tip section where you can upload all your evidence gathered inc the URL for this video

[@MsTokyoflower]

no one seems to talk about if this went through, there would be like 99% men there. Imagine being one of the few women there, surrounded by crypto bros ...

[@EinhanderSn0m4n]

This sounds like a good premise for a horror movie. A Crypto Film.

[@GuildCarver]

Every time I hear "Welcoin to cryptoland." I die a little inside.

[@FamiAoi]

The crypto laundering websites people use to hide their tracks is in fact not anonymous. Every user's information, such as the device they use, their location, their wallets, their accounts, their redeem codes, and so on, are all still recorded and those companies still have to physically host those servers somewhere on the planet. Those companies still have to abide by the law of where they host. The investigative teams in several nations are quite easily able to acquire the data they need from these crypto tornado websites with zero hesitation from the company. How do I know this? Because it is happening.

[@endless_sora]

Love it mate. Love a good exposure video

[@bison_42]

Thanks for the awesome video, like always. Hope your hand is better.

[@W2Report]

I read through the comments about how Kira called this, but I do want to point out that this was a completely independent investigation into Kyle Chasse's activities on the blockchain. I did not speak to Kira personally about the investigation until we were introduced in the past week (as of post time).

[@Carnyzzle]

I'm still looking forward to Cryptoland becoming Fyre Festival 2.0

[@Sniperbear13]

you know its funny how people have been pulling those rug pulls, and yet some seem to forget; Web3 is all about being able to track the transaction flow(hence why scammers use things like tornado cash), so this fool really just played himself.

[@BBWahoo]

Tornado cash goes against the very values of web3 yet we have people try to pull excuses out of their ass like a magician does napkins

[@Dong_Harvey]

@@BBWahoo 'values of web3' , what values? I thought you guys were decentralized, how else do you expect crypto to maintain user anonymity against totalitarian governments without a cash launderer?

[@BBWahoo]

@@Dong_Harvey The value of transparency, "everything is on the blockchain" goes right out the window when you put a veil on yourself and launder your stolen money. Personally, it should've never been made, but it has, so the whole shtick is invalidated, instead raising red flags and making it deceptive instead of something to be called "open and accessible"

[@MuthaFukka]

You can just report it on the FBI website. Send link to this video.

[@stellah1643]

I don't know anything about bit coin but it's interesting you can actually track wallets! This is the second time, in this case, where I have seen this move. I think i heard you needed to be very careful with your wallets' security info. If you forget you may not be able to retrieve your bit coin. Thanks for your video, it was interesting. 😃

[@MrBell-iq3sm]

I'm sad CryproLand is dead. When it first appeared I was immediately hooked. You don't find dumpster fires like that everyday :(

[@DCCoreDrive]

.....and the unmasking part of the video? Who is it then? Kyle? I think KiraTV already did video about this some time ago. Anyway, thanks for the effort. These people deserve it..

[@WiFiPunk]

I was waiting for the reveal right up to the end. I got my hopes up for some secret illuminati puppetmaster. Instead we just got Kyle.

[@JustJanitor]

Always appreciate the good investigative journalism

[@atheist_addict]

I love Cryptoland, it just is the pinnacle of crypto crazy wrapped into one glorious cultural artefact. Great channel, subscribed!

[@rickybobby5153]

Oh boy more “mental maturity should be enough ;)” I mean cryptoland 😂

[@undeadMonk]

I'm going to set myself up for egg on my face and say right now that Kira already called this a few weeks back (although at the time there was no concrete proof) and fingered Chasse (not looking up how to spell that chode's name) as The Guy // Alright yeah Kira called it - still appreciate the video, Callum! (engaging for the algo-rhythm)

[@Lenariet]

Was gonna say kind of the same, but I'm not sure anymore how much of what Callum shows here was seen on Kira's videos, if at all. The more the merrier I guess. At the end of the day the shadow cabal stays unified. ;-)

[@deejus.]

Ah, you must be the mysterious hacker known only as "4chan".

[@bear798]

A bunch of crypto bros getting wiped out by a tsunami would be hilarious

[@Alex-cw3rz]

Your hair in this video, makes you look like you are a new band member of A Flock Of Seagulls

[@MrDiggityaus]

You’re probably right, but could an alternative excuse he could make is that after buying land that the sellers didn’t own, it took months for him to get his money back from crypto land. Then because he wants to keep the false image of a crypto genius who never makes bad investments, he removed the video from KZbin. Like I said, I probably think you’re correct, but this could be an alternative explanation not in your video. Either way, there were many people who got scammed who didn’t get a cent back.

[@chadschmaltz9790]

I was thinking the same thing, but Kyle's reaction to the info coming out by deleting his video makes me suspect that Callum is probably right. If he just got a refund, he could come out and say that, but he didn't. It would have probably been less of a hit to his credibility as an investor than to try and hide it.

[@CallumUpton]

if that was the case (which i did consider) why spend thousands on gas fees shiting 3 seperate payments through 4 different wallets? its obvious obfuscation

[@MrDiggityaus]

@@CallumUpton yeah true, I guess it depends on how much money he thought he was going to scam off others originally. Then decided that losing the thousands in gas fees was a hit he was going to have to take. But like I say, your probably correct in your assumptions. I went back and watched your first initial video and there seems to be more evidence lining up he was more integral to crypto lands launch. I did find his statement that “the owners spent $500,000 of their own money setting this up” intriguing as that is exactly what he put into the crypto land wallet.

[@mix1ro]

you're the Skrillex of calling out shady people and I'm here for it

[@lapsuswuolio6178]

I totally think the guy was one of the "founders" of Cryptoland, but as far as proof comes, doesn't this mainly just prove that he was refunded for his initial purchase, which could be explained by project failing and returning investors monies?

[@W2Report]

Honest question, Since when did a crypto project willingly refund its investors? They would rug pull the instant that there is some resistance, or they would lock you out of your funds.

[@ridhosamudro2199]

Well we just need to see if other investors got their money back. Also it's kinda sus that they refund it in pieces.

[@lapsuswuolio6178]

@@ridhosamudro2199 I don't think there was any other investors, I believe Chasse was only person to make the purchase.

[@skrounst]

When you said "you're welcome" to the FBI I had to pause to laugh my ass off.. GOTEM DUDE!

[@Proserpira]

"buying and island and sending all thr cryptobros there" is ehat my mum said she wanted to do to teenagers when i pissed her off

[@lizzfrmhon]

“Absolute melon” 😂🤣😂

[@justinwhite2725]

'when you don't own the thing you are selling'... They do this in FinTech a lot. Put options are basically this. (GameStop when awry because the companies sold stock they didn't have and were required to buy it at a higher price on order to pay it back.)

[@toomanyaccounts]

except for land that is often quite illegal.

[@elixwhitetail]

They specifically did not dedicate the NFT money to buying the island so they couldn't get rung up for selling land they didn't own. This also meant that the NFTs weren't buying the island and Cryptoland was SOMEHOW supposed to raise another like $100 million to pay for everything without selling the plots (again) which was the single most valuable aspect of the project and the only aspect of the project that offered even potential tangible value.

[@teeceedee]

"simple rugpulls" that phrase tells you all you need to know about how rampant is scam nowadays

[@onpoc]

I'll miss that stupid coin.

[@Sebastianmaz615]

Attempting to obfuscate just makes it all the more obvious! 😆

[@PaburoVIII]

sounds interesting to send all the crypto bros in an island :P

[@ghstproject]

I'm still thinking about that poor soul that actually lives on the island and probably don't know anything about this :D

[@FelisImpurrator]

You know, I want it to be real so the crypto bros can be kept away from the rest of us.

[@mkhachfe]

Great work guys. Kudos to you three

[@VoicedNat]

NFT's are decentralized, however can still suffer legal consequences and legal ownership solely depends on the government, which is by definition centralized.

[@user-rw1mo6vg7z]

see my immediate thought just from the very start was it was kyle also. i didnt have any proof of it but my gut was telling me who the best person would be to pull off a scam like that is and the one who is first to advertise seems like the perfect culprit

[@flamingpickle8846]

"that much of an absolute melon" lmao

[@mrkozak]

Wouldn't have guessed it was elong mousque all along.

[@namelessghoul4902]

That bowling alley animation should have been enough of a warning that this was a sham lol

[@lstylerpg]

Great video man keep 'em coming.

[@ultgamercw6759]

Watch as the cryptoland world falls apart, exposed by none other than.... the Shadow Cabal Muhahahahahaha!

[@mikesanders8621]

I'm not an FBI agent, but the one who watches everything I do while expertly disguising herself as my shadow will probably link it to her boss while I'm asleep, so I think we may see justice on this one. What pills?

[@RachelRoseMitchell]

cryptoland is the gift that keeps on giving, damn

[@carnim7929]

What a perfectly reasonable thing to sell

[@DemonicAkumi]

He thought None would Follow the Transactions

[@A_Stereotypical_Heretic]

I think there should be islands for LOTSSSS of types of people...

[@02commodorevx]

excellent work

[@MasticinaAkicta]

anonymity right... right? Oh right you are leaving a trail everywhere and if people just put time and energy into it it goes right back to you.

[@Cygnus888]

It's amazing how many people don't understand the simple concept of "internet never forgets"...

[@glowing_clod969]

If that one person living on that island isn't named Wilson I will be very disappointed.

[@WoolfJ35]

Greed is absolutely wild lol

[@neveridle]

I cant wait for this. Cryptoland is one of my fav scams and I cant believe how ludicrous their clip is. The way they pretend it was intentionally bad is comical. They are in complete denial. Lets have fun together

[@xusdom]

Now, after i somehow managed to understand english content without subs, i even can notice this irony...really like it... :-)

[@mrbleepblopguy4638]

He thought no one cared. Boy was he wrong.

[@securedcertification477]

BigFry out Kyle about 6 weeks ago...bless him lol😂

[@Luneward]

I was under the impression this was already known. I'll have to see if I can find past videos, but pretty sure I saw a video a few weeks ago mentioning how Kyle had been the only purchaser of a plot (fully refunded later), and his name was actually found in some legacy code on the website as being part of the project. Though the more obvious direct link that this was supposed to just be a rug pull wasn't mentioned.

[@Discoveryman29]

The thumbnail make me hope for another shadow cabal episode

[@CallumUpton]

i still have the robes.... anything is possible

[@Discoveryman29]

Pog

[@at_witts_end3470]

I was actually hoping it was Conny himself.

[@frankmeyer1473]

Those typhoons are not a bug, they are a feature. It's the real life implementation of the Tornado Cash tumbler.

[@DENOCTAGON]

oh my GOD CALLUM, THERE'S A MANTIS BEHIND YO- WATCH OUT, OH NO

[@foogod4237]

But but but, wait.. I thought Cryptoland was a front for the Shadow Cabal to discredit Earth2 by funding Star Citizen development using NFTs of dead porn stars...

[@Sakky_wakky]

Got a crypto ira investment ad.

[@feralfeather]

...but that was already long revealed...

[@MrGluchacki]

ALL HAIL THE SHADOW CABAL!

[@CallumUpton]

the brothers are with you!

[@Heldermaior]

Kira found him ages ago by analysing the wallet transactions.

[@khandimahn9687]

The reason no one lives there is the number of typhoons that hit the island? Oh, how glorious that would have been, watching them start to build then it's wiped away.

[@toomanyaccounts]

its actually a retreat for a British knighted family. you can look the island up and for 12 million island getaway for a family in Asia its actually pretty nice. problem is there are hundreds of similar get ups.

[@mimArmand]

Makes sense but if I wanted to find a reason I'd say maybe they returned the money tp him after the project was canceled, not him sending the ETH back to himself.

[@tamere3]

Good work

[@Monothefox]

If the wallet numbers are hexadecimal, that one is number 861,805, so there ought to be about a million wallets. Since one person can have several wallets, there are probably (far) less than a million people in the world who are into crypto.

[@clownworld5474]

Far less than a million? lol

[@lemeres2478]

"And I would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for you meddling youtubers"

[@dwavenminer]

Its a real shame this project failed...would have been nice to have all the cyptobros in one, easily contianable, place, where we could all easily ignore them...

[@antigrav6004]

Almost wish this succeeded. I would love to send all the crypto bros to one island. Like a reverse Epstein

[@Blisterdude123]

I was hoping the fraud would hold together till it got as many Cryptobros on the island at least. With any luck, a lot would have possibly been culled through a combination of wildlife, dangerous weather, and rampant disease.

[@timbraasch1514]

Hey man, what are you doing?! your factory needs you!

[@0Ciju0]

Hi Callum! I ran into you from BigFryTV's initial coverage of Earth 2.0 and I'm glad I did. You've lowkey motivated me to get back into the tech scene as I was getting pretty complainant at my current job. Now, I've been reinvigurated and have been learning all about Cyber Security, virtual machines, Kali Linux, proxy chains, Python and goodness knows what else. I would love to find someone like yourself near me in real life, someone I can shoot the shit with regarding all of the topics you've covered. Keep doing what your doing buddy, it's definitely got value to your community.

[@Alexander31616]

Nice. Does this make Kyle the "mastermind" behind it? Or did someone just garentee him his money back?

[@phaethon00]

Could it be that.... The guy purchased something. You say thats proof that he actually paid for it. That something was never delivered on, so, to not be accused of scamming people out of money/pulling the rug, they ... paid him back? I don't know enough about crypto, but with the information in this video, that's my first thought. It was a terrible project, agreed, but that transaction they "uncovered" doesn't seem weird to me. If I'm wrong, would love to know why.

[@W2Report]

Honest question: Since when did crypto projects pay back their investors? We DO know that Kyle is forming the House of DAO on an island somewhere in Thailand that isn't too dissimilar to Cryptoland. Think of Cryptoland as the flashy younger brother to the House of DAO. Besides, there is a House of DAO on Cryptoland.

[@mikeherald3572]

Yeah. I agree on most of his points except the last which is just a massive jump, this is not proof of him being the "REAL creator of Cryptoland" or even close to it IMO. He bought it (yes), it was his wallet (yes), he got a discount (yes), he is the creator(?), he just got a refund when the project failed (imo). He even said ppl are now going to prison for crypto fraud in the video. Giving even more likelyhood of this being just a refund. He could have threatened lawsuit or whatever. Also in the clip he shows Kyle said "it has been long time coming" or something, I would interpret that as them having drafted some sort of legal contract before agreeing to the purchase, but idk maybe he is talking about something else. But I think it would be safe to assume he played it safe when buying something like this, he got a discount out of them after all, refund (if the project is unsucessful) would likely be part of the agreement.