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They could have made it look more legitimate by sending multiple fake donations there. https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/364fYEU6U4D8zt4EG2oxVZcYo2ovGYZioD
by tromp 5y ago
They could have made it look more legitimate by sending multiple fake donations there. https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/364fYEU6U4D8zt4EG2oxVZcYo2ovGYZioD https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/364fYEU6U4D8zt4EG2oxV... shows only one ~$40 donation, which may or may not be fake.
On the other hand, I guess they're only targetting the gullible, who aren't expected to check the donation history anyway...
- amelius 5y agoHow would a benevolent party receive their first BTC donation, though, if everybody was that skeptical?
- can16358p 5y agoThere will always be people who are at the less-skeptic end of the spectrum. And some actually _want to be_ the first, giving them (the illusion of) exclusivity.
- 3np 5y agoBy sharing it over a trusted channel (like their website, a well-known social media profile, or an AFK interaction) or cryptographically signed with a trusted key. Certainly not by sending it in unsolicited emails or DMs.
- saalweachter 5y agoHell, "use a fresh address per marketing campaign" sounds like analytics 101, so you know if email blasts are worth the effort over just throwing up something on Twitter every N days/hours.
- vmception 5y agouse a fresh address per recipient. the sender can still get the total balance from that set of addresses for the marketing campaign analytics
- tenuousemphasis 5y agoThe Ukrainian central bank shared their crypto addresses on their Twitter and received tens of millions worth of donations.
- vmception 5y agoThey dont have to be reusing addresses There is no reason to, except some wallets make it hard for the user to switch addresses All clients give the user infinite addresses down a tree, so a script creating emails could easily move down the index for each recipient