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Got a similar scam after Ukranian Government started accepting donations. The (fake) email allegedly came from CoinDesk (of course from a completely fake email

Got a similar scam after Ukranian Government started accepting donations. The (fake) email allegedly came from CoinDesk (of course from a completely fake email address), telling to support Ukrania, with a picture of the original tweet with the donation addresses switched to attacker's, which is also on the email. Scam on itself is one thing. Scam abusing a sensitive topic like donating to people in need... this is just disgusting.

willcipriano 5y ago
We need a way to associate bitcoin addresses with domain names so users will send to ukraine.ua or similar. It's not perfect but humans have no hope with long random strings.
- tough 5y ago
  that's what .eth domains do with ENS no?
  - can16358p 5y ago
    There are other problems with ENS though, it's not completely decentralized. But yes, that would cover some of the issues, yet scammers will still find ways to scam the less-tech-savvy ones.
    - tough 5y ago
      Yeah I'm tech savvy and it's a fuck fest of scam DM's I get both on twitter (For having an .eth domain on my username) and discord (whenever i join a NFT/DAO/web3 project... I mean I can deal with it, but is easier when you buy almost nothing. I know this stuff and yet sometimes I almost get scammed.
- woodruffw 5y ago
  Isn’t a naming authority exactly the kind of thing that cryptocurrency people deride as centralization?
  - vmception 5y ago
    build it and find out if cryptocurrency people will use it and you’ll have your answer
    - woodruffw 5y ago
      That only demonstrates an inconsistency in practice, unless I’m misunderstanding what you mean.
  - Tenoke 5y ago
    It's largely a myth that you cant benefit from some centralization for some use cases while building on top of a decentralized system so no.
- 88913527 5y ago
  Make a DNS TXT record to prove the relation between an address and a domain name. We have the tools today to solve this problem.
  - beardog 5y ago
    https://openalias.org/ https://openalias.org/ does this
  - tczMUFlmoNk 5y ago
    Yes, and, if you enable DNSSEC on your domain and post a cryptographic proof of this TXT record to the Ethereum chain, you can use your proof of ownership of the DNS name to trustlessly claim the associated ENS name. Then, people using Ethereum can send assets directly to "ukraine.ua", which will resolve via ENS to your address. Example entry point: https://app.ens.domains/name/ukraine.ua https://app.ens.domains/name/ukraine.ua Docs for this integration: https://docs.ens.domains/dns-registrar-guide https://docs.ens.domains/dns-registrar-guide
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willcipriano 5y ago

We need a way to associate bitcoin addresses with domain names so users will send to ukraine.ua or similar. It's not perfect but humans have no hope with long random strings.

tough 5y ago
that's what .eth domains do with ENS no?
- can16358p 5y ago
  There are other problems with ENS though, it's not completely decentralized. But yes, that would cover some of the issues, yet scammers will still find ways to scam the less-tech-savvy ones.
  - tough 5y ago
    Yeah I'm tech savvy and it's a fuck fest of scam DM's I get both on twitter (For having an .eth domain on my username) and discord (whenever i join a NFT/DAO/web3 project... I mean I can deal with it, but is easier when you buy almost nothing. I know this stuff and yet sometimes I almost get scammed.
woodruffw 5y ago
Isn’t a naming authority exactly the kind of thing that cryptocurrency people deride as centralization?
- vmception 5y ago
  build it and find out if cryptocurrency people will use it and you’ll have your answer
  - woodruffw 5y ago
    That only demonstrates an inconsistency in practice, unless I’m misunderstanding what you mean.
- Tenoke 5y ago
  It's largely a myth that you cant benefit from some centralization for some use cases while building on top of a decentralized system so no.
88913527 5y ago
Make a DNS TXT record to prove the relation between an address and a domain name. We have the tools today to solve this problem.
- beardog 5y ago
  https://openalias.org/ https://openalias.org/ does this
- tczMUFlmoNk 5y ago
  Yes, and, if you enable DNSSEC on your domain and post a cryptographic proof of this TXT record to the Ethereum chain, you can use your proof of ownership of the DNS name to trustlessly claim the associated ENS name. Then, people using Ethereum can send assets directly to "ukraine.ua", which will resolve via ENS to your address. Example entry point: https://app.ens.domains/name/ukraine.ua https://app.ens.domains/name/ukraine.ua Docs for this integration: https://docs.ens.domains/dns-registrar-guide https://docs.ens.domains/dns-registrar-guide
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