@Cryptocito There is zero purpose for atom to exist at this point.
The copium is wild - all vision for it disappeared years ago sadly. The removal of IBC as any potential revenue driver is a nail in the coffin and should be obvious to everyone now
And here’s your long form answer from Grok:
Low likelihood that the specific story is honest. The post is classic marketing content, and the details do not hold up well under scrutiny.
Key issues with the anecdote
•The “hostess sees your card” detail is wrong. At restaurants like Cipriani or Carbone, seating is driven by reservations, being a known regular, or concierge arrangements. You do not flash a credit card (even a Centurion) to the hostess upon arrival to get a better booth. High spend can get you recognized over time, and the Centurion has strong concierge/reservation benefits plus Resy credits, but the mechanism described is not how it works. Carson Wells correctly flagged this as a tell.
•“Owns 9 commercial plumbing and mechanical companies in Queens” is a stretch. It is theoretically possible for someone to control multiple LLCs or have acquired smaller shops, but the framing of one individual owning nine distinct commercial plumbing/mechanical businesses while casually spending $4,000 a month at high-end restaurants and running $250k/month in materials is extreme. Queens has established commercial plumbing contractors, but searches do not turn up clear examples of a single-person empire of that scale. It reads like an exaggerated composite rather than a real, specific client.
•The storytelling pattern is formulaic. Hunter has posted multiple nearly identical stories in a short period (“had dinner with a guy on the Amex Centurion team,” “played golf with a mortgage underwriter,” landscaping company example, etc.). Each follows the same structure: insider laugh, specific large numbers, contrast between middle-class status-card users and “real” rich people using free business cards for 0% float, then a call-to-action for his credit-stacking service. This is standard influencer marketing, not a one-off personal anecdote.
What has more basis in reality
The underlying tactics are not necessarily pure fiction. Business credit cards under an LLC/EIN often do not report balances to personal credit bureaus (if the business is established), 0% intro APR offers exist, and careful application sequencing is a known (if sometimes aggressive) credit-optimization technique. Some wealthy people do use status cards primarily for signaling while routing operating expenses elsewhere. Amex Centurion basics (invite-only, high fees, charge card, limited everyday points) are roughly accurate.
Bottom line
Hunter is running a business that sells business-credit stacking and funding services (links in bio, repeated CTAs). The post is engagement-and-lead-generation content.
The specific “dinner with the Amex guy + exact wallet of the Queens plumbing magnate” story is very likely invented or very heavily embellished. The skeptics in the thread (including Carson Wells) identified real problems with the details. The broader idea that sophisticated business owners optimize credit and cash flow differently from most people has some possible truth to it, but the packaging here prioritizes persuasion of the audience towards a CTA over any kind of real precision.
@joshkim@bot You guys could improve comms a lot releasing news through a singular Grok or Bot account. As a user who’s in it every day, the news and releases feel very fragmented when it comes from staff before official accounts