Well, they're one of the biggest 100% independent rating agency in the North America. Not a random agency to be ignored tbh. And this is economics, they're evaluating the market and the investments, potential investments whatever. Your post suggests that only cryptographers and/or computer scientists can generate correct ratings, and that is just a horrible joke.

These ratings are subjective, much like stock ratings. I wouldn't take it seriously.

You may also want to consider the fact that Weiss has already been prosecuted for "production and and distribution of materially false and misleading marketing materials" (false ratings for pump and dump basically lol) before:

https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2009/34-60125.pdf

Don't give them the power to influence prices. Ignoring their ratings would be best lol.

Well I hate to break it to you, but bitcoin.com is not, in any way, affiliated with Bitcoin. It's run by Roger Ver, who is a Bitcoin Cash shill. Satoshi himself disowned it; granted, the site was nothing like it currently is at the time:


I would argue that bitcoin.com is at least a little bit manipulative lol.

Either way, it's not like the rating is fake news or anything. I'm just pointing out that Weiss isn't as legitimate as some people probably believe.

In 2006, the SEC charged Weiss Ratings of misleading investors and violating securities laws, and slapped the investment advisor and his company with a combined $2.1 million fine.

They're a joke, and don't seem to understand the first thing about cryptocurrencies. Vaporware like EOS and Cardano are ranked higher than Bitcoin. It is a very high likelihood that they are directly or indirectly invested in Cardano and EOS.

You clearly need to read more. Your ignorance is no longer astonishing anymore because there are lots of people like you in the forum. All mindless drones.

Having that said, rating agencies are corrupt, as shown during the housing bubble. Google it and learn something new. You clearly need to read more. <-- Yeah I said it again lol.

These scores are just hilarious, it's good that these types of parties are actually trying to acknowledge and understand cryptocurrencies now tho. More people watching and learning about the space is positive

You confuse me. Can you explain that again? I cant decide if your post is good or bad because I cant quite understand your point. Its like you are typing without thinking like you have ADHD or something.

Maybe I'm mistaken but the rankings are only a measure of how do they think a coin is going to perform, it is not a judgment on the technology behind the coin, that is why some coins that should have the highest rating, like bitcoin in terms of innovation is only a C+, they think it is a bad idea to sell since the price is low and it is not a good idea to buy since the market is not moving that much.

I would wager they're quantitative-based which is why they're currently useless.  The data they have to feed into the model has to be uniform and widely available for each coin.  They're obviously not measuring the same things that we do as potential investors.  And at least half of the score is momentum based, which is why the ratings will change as quick as week-to-week.

Weiss Research and Weiss Ratings is not the same company, though both are related to Weiss.  Martin Weiss is a long-time doom porn huckster that publishes newsletters and trading advisory services.

Weiss Ratings is also not a nationally recognized credit ratings agency.  They may be more accurate in pre-identifying insurance ratings failures than the Big Three, but that doesn't mean squat for crypto.