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Wow, I would have just assumed that all the money in the wallets were laundered to give the impression of credibility, but it sounds like you're saying the quar

Wow, I would have just assumed that all the money in the wallets were laundered to give the impression of credibility, but it sounds like you're saying the quarter million dollars in those wallets are likely all from real people? And with 6000 live youtube viewers as well, probably not all bots!? And their website is down even with Cloudflare DDOS protection, meaning their website is probably being overloaded by legitimate traffic?? I've stumbled across variants of "play video of smart people talking about complex topic with link to unrelated scam to get people to build trust and click through" but I never knew how successful they were until now with crypto transactions being open and such.

applesapl 5y ago
It's all real..it's insane. I don't think the media, policy makers understand the scope of the problem. Literally anyone with a crypto acocunt and who watches youtube is at risk. We're talking millions of people. In the span of two weeks youtube scammers earned as much as the colonel pipeline hack, but no media coverage, no fbi invovement.
- spoonjim 5y ago
  FBI and media doesn't really care if some crypto speculators lose their shirts. The Colonial hack shut down real world infrastructure which is got everyone interested.
- cma 5y ago
  Isn't this ultimately positive, for spreading negative experiences with crypto, which could free up electricity for cancer research (protein folding or something)?
- skim_milk 5y ago
  I wonder if it would be useful to keep track of known-scam crypto addresses for the purpose of informing policy makers. Say there was a website where you could upload evidence of crypto scams and, say, get points for the effort of uncovering it once verified and compare your total score to other users on the website. That would be a fun project and go a long way towards showing policy makers how prevalent crypto scams are

applesapl 5y ago

It's all real..it's insane. I don't think the media, policy makers understand the scope of the problem. Literally anyone with a crypto acocunt and who watches youtube is at risk. We're talking millions of people. In the span of two weeks youtube scammers earned as much as the colonel pipeline hack, but no media coverage, no fbi invovement.

spoonjim 5y ago
FBI and media doesn't really care if some crypto speculators lose their shirts. The Colonial hack shut down real world infrastructure which is got everyone interested.
cma 5y ago
Isn't this ultimately positive, for spreading negative experiences with crypto, which could free up electricity for cancer research (protein folding or something)?
skim_milk 5y ago
I wonder if it would be useful to keep track of known-scam crypto addresses for the purpose of informing policy makers. Say there was a website where you could upload evidence of crypto scams and, say, get points for the effort of uncovering it once verified and compare your total score to other users on the website. That would be a fun project and go a long way towards showing policy makers how prevalent crypto scams are