All you had to do was use Bitconnects official payout data in a compound interest calculator to know it was mathematically 100% a scam from the get go.
All you had to do was understand that Trevon James is an idiot that is constantly lying and is only out to milk his followers for his own profit (if you watch his actions leading up to the BCC collapse it is obvious he knew the exit scam was about to happen before it did...oh and PS his "111 BTC hack" was a complete lie).
All you had to do was understand that Craig Grant is also an idiot and is a know scammer who was tied to a 20/20 investigation into Nigerian scammers which Craig and his now-girlfriend were working with (and again if you look at Craigs actions leading up to the BCC collapse it is obvious he was in the know and knew the exit scam was about to be initiated)
All you had to do was understand that Crypto Nick is also an idiot who bragged about making 90% of his crypto profits off the backs of his followers (via referrals) and is so uneducated about the crypto space that he didn't even know what a public key is (... how you can 1 minute say you made 1mil in the crypto space, and then follow that up talking about how you don't know what a public key is... is truly beyond me).

People need to stop taking shortcuts (to good to be true scam), and stop following people that have an IQ of literally fuckin 45 (Trevon, Craig, Nick...) and instead focus on projects with amazing teams, amazing tech, amazing roadmaps, amazing ideas, and the ability to weather the storm for the the long.