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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 y
by 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 agoFBI 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 agoIsn'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 agoI 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