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What makes you think they don’t? We had one on Reddit in 2008.
by raldi 6y ago
What makes you think they don’t? We had one on Reddit in 2008.
- dvt 6y agoBecause if there ever was a moment to press that button, it would be now. Thousands of accounts are still tweeting that BTC address.
- raldi 6y agoIt’s unfathomable to me that they don’t have this button, but equally so that they haven’t pressed it. Edit: There we go. https://twitter.com/JacKnutson/status/1283527213606789121 https://twitter.com/JacKnutson/status/1283527213606789121
- hu3 6y ago2 hours later. it's more likely that they developed the button and deployed it
- ForHackernews 6y ago...so what? People tweet garbage all the time. There are already millions of twitter spambots. What's so horrible about a few more?
- TeMPOraL 6y agoApparently they flow from high-profile accounts. If someone can inject one message across so many Twitter handles, they most likely can inject other messages as well. Like ones tailored to manipulate the stock market, or impacting international politics.
- ForHackernews 6y agoSilver linings: Maybe this will teach people a valuable lesson about not believing nonsense they read on Twitter.
- quickthrower2 6y agoAnd more generally, always question the authenticity of any information you receive electronically (email, SMS, PMs, websites etc.), as a basic security principle. "Are they asking for something valuable?". In this case red flags are obviously 1. bitcoin, 2. too good to be true, 3. why would these people just give out money randomly. In the future the scope may grow to include visual and audio communications which could be faked using AI.
- yuliyp 6y agoI'm pretty sure most of the still incoming tweets with that address are copycats/trolls at this point.