Who are the people smart enough to own bitcoin but dumb enough to fall for this.
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Who are the people smart enough to own bitcoin but dumb enough to fall for this.
The Micon System V4.0 with foreword from Justin Wade Smith.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sidewinder
Coinbase says it prevented over 1,000 customers from sending $280,000 worth of bitcoin to Twitter hackers
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/...witter-hackers
tl;dr a lot of bitcoin exchanges blocked transactions when they found out about this scam, saving a bunch of idiots a bunch of money.
A dirty secret of the bitcoin community is that there are a lot of really, really gullible people involved, which makes the poker community look downright street smart by comparison.
Here's one example: http://pokerfraudalert.com/forum/sho...could-go-wrong
The "Poker By Proxy" scam skipped right past the poker community and instead they went straight for morons holding bitcoin, sensing they were far easier targets. And they were correct.