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It seems utterly, utterly insane to me that the vendor of a currency wallet software would leave the .com of their product's name unregistered. Using the real E
by ghostly_s 8y ago
It seems utterly, utterly insane to me that the vendor of a currency wallet software would leave the .com of their product's name unregistered. Using the real Electrum at home but second-guessing that now.
- marceloneil 8y agoApparently the previous owner of the domain was trying to sell it for "the price of a house", not something an open-source project can typically afford. [0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/8a1drz/psa_electrumcom_bought_by_scammers_to_distribute/dwv3k10/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/8a1drz/psa_electru...
- literallycancer 8y agoBy definition, the market value of that domain has to be close to the value of all BTC that ever gets stolen by the copycat malware. Doesn't seem like something a project with no budget can afford.
- drexlspivey 8y agoThomas Voegtlin (creator of electrum) said on reddit that they tried to buy the domain in 2012 but it was too expensive. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/8a1drz/psa_electrumcom_bought_by_scammers_to_distribute/dwv3k10/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/8a1drz/psa_electru...