RE:OMG! - HIVE paid promoters $750K plus options to pump stockNormal course of business. Remember these kinds of advertisements were for mining companies that had no chance of ever being a "new" discovery yet alone a mine.
Everyone turns on their tvs or listen to radios and some even read newpapers. Promotion and advertising is everywhere for every type of product. Not shocking at all is it. Stop being shocked and becsuase the article is clearly one point of veiw towards Vancouver being the base of pump and dumps. It has but things are slowly changing and you cant paint every deal with one brush.
What the article doesnt say, as they know they will get taken to task over it is the amount of money spent annually by the DOW 30 etc on advertising and far worse promotion. My friends on Wall Street spend more money in a month in advertisemnt then HIVE did for a 3 year contract.
Anyways, Happy Hi\olidays and all the best in 2018.