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Scamming people, running a pyramid or ponzi, selling shovels. edit: I'm only semi-joking, the official Bitcoin forums quite literally has pyramid and ponzi and
by ev1 6y ago
Scamming people, running a pyramid or ponzi, selling shovels.
edit: I'm only semi-joking, the official Bitcoin forums quite literally has pyramid and ponzi and straight up fraud schemes that people happily sign up to and refer each other to. There is no attempt to hide them or look legitimate. You'll find ridiculous-to-outsiders threads asking "hey anyone know a good ponzi i can sign up for will use your referral"
The marketplace subforum is nearly totally populated with stolen/hacked accounts, subscriptions using fraudulent/stolen credit cards, it's pretty much a fraud forum.
- spurdoman77 6y agoThats sad, it was great when I started years ago but I quickly moved elsewhere.
- Scoundreller 6y agoYeah, I read a recent article where the opening was “it can be hard to believe, but the Bitcoin.org/.it forums used to function effectively”. It’s nice that all the original stuff is still there instead of buried on Twitter or Reddit.
- mraudiobook_com 6y agoThere is no "official" site or forum. It's hilarious and sad you people continue to fail to understand this. I think this is where the hate comes from, you guys simply can't grasp that no one is in charge.
- anoncake 6y agoHow does a "straight up fraud scheme" work? Can I tell people on Bitcoin forums that I'm pretending to be a Nigerian prince and they'll give me money? If so, where can I find these forums?
- ev1 6y agoYou have your choice: there is a subforum specifically for "Gambling and all "investments" that are so risky they might as well be gambling (HYIPs, pyramid schemes, etc.)", or you can just buy hacked PayPal accounts and cards in the "Digital Goods" subforum.
- anoncake 6y agoI thought you meant that people willingly sign up to be defrauded with their knowledge and consent.
- TrackerFF 6y agoThere are communities which explicitly state their intentions. A bit related - I've seen forums etc. where the community pumps stocks, crypto currencies, and what not. Everyone knows what happening, and they're all in on it. One typical way is that some "stock guru" is selling spots for private chats / rooms, where they'll regularly announce "signals" - i.e hyping up some penny stock. The group members will obviously start purchasing shares / pumping the stock, and exit as soon as outside buyers enter the cycle. Sometimes they just flat-out announce public pumping schemes on forums / user groups.
- netsharc 6y ago> Everyone knows what happening, and they're all in on it. The thing with Hertz' stock going crazy even though they declared bankruptcy was insane... people were buying the stock because they're betting there'll be another idiot wanting to buy the stocks off them for a higher price. Which is the entire principle of crypto, IMO.
- mraudiobook_com 6y agoThere is no "official" Bitcoin forum, what a asinine thing to even say. The fact that you'd make up such a dumb thing is proof you have now idea what you are talking about. But hey, haters gonna hate I guess.
- ev1 6y agoSince I can't edit this anymore, I'm going to clarify that I know there is no "official" forum, but I am referencing the largest one that used to be on the bitcoin.org domain, but is now bitcointalk.
- UShouldBWorking 6y agoThat makes more sense but arguably bitcoin.org is run by a bunch of scammers being paid by Blockstream so of course it's going to be full of scams.
- UShouldBWorking 6y agoThere is no such thing as an "official" Bitcoin forum. What an absolute meaningless and stupid thing to say.
- notadog 6y agoYou make a good point, but there is no "official Bitcoin forum." That's the equivalent of calling HN the "official hacker forum."
- duxup 6y agoSometimes I think Bitcoin is the best way for us to learn why we have rules and the systems we have.