Yeah, that's the origin of the phrase. What I don't get in that quote is the "But..." clause, when followers buying in is exactly the desire result of pumping b

Yeah, that's the origin of the phrase. What I don't get in that quote is the "But..." clause, when followers buying in is exactly the desire result of pumping bags. As a whole, the quote makes little sense to me. Edit: Ah, reading the thread I think he means that buy tweeting a lot about a particular project he could raise the secondary market values (which could be considered a good thing even if you don't cash out at those levels), but instead his followers bought in at the mint level, which he was being paid a percentage of. In other words, he was making money from his followers buying into the project. I can see how he'd consider that differently and regret it.