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[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 104 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Putting $40K of "assets" into an app with ~200 reviews is real Apple enthusiast mindset

[–] teradome@lemmy.one 52 points 8 months ago (1 children)

and by a developer named "LetalComRu", no less

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 43 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You’ve been got by the lethal communist Russian

[–] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 30 points 8 months ago

Uncritical support

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 79 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Can't believe a currency made up entirely of scams would come to this.

Oh well. Too bad there's no giant ledger of transactions one might leverage a regulated body against to retrieve money from fraudulent transactions.

[–] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 32 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Tbf crypto has its uses like bypassing US sanctions and stuff. Juche Crypto Hackers are the only good people in the crypto community.

[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 46 points 8 months ago (1 children)

DPRK of all places profiting from the ultimate ancap wet dream messiah technology will never not be funny.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 18 points 8 months ago (2 children)

One of the etherum developers got arrested for showing North Koreans how to use the currency to avoid sanctions lol

[–] alexandra_kollontai@hexbear.net 64 points 8 months ago

Crypto bros: "You can be your own bank!"

Crypto bros trying to be their own bank:

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 55 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I can't believe these losers still exist.

I don't know how anyone can put $40k into something where the ownership belongs to the person with the keys, someone stole your keys? It's theirs now and you can't go to court for it. On top of the risk of buying such a high-risk volatile 'asset', you have to worry about someone else yoinking it. Atleast in the regular stonk markets, you only have the former to worry about.

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 22 points 8 months ago

i don't think his apes came with title or were registered with the dmv

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 17 points 8 months ago

And also you just give out that super important key to any app that asks

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 51 points 8 months ago

pizza-dance

I can't say I've ever reached into my pocket and pulled out my fake wallet and used the fake debit card that drains all of my money across multiple credit unions by accident. Even bought a cheap wallet from some shady convention guy because it was Star Trek-themed. Zero reviews, no idea who made it. Moneycoin just seems to work like it should for the amount of energy that should cost.

[–] edge@hexbear.net 44 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That just sounds like the free market at work. Does he hate the free market?

[–] chickentendrils@hexbear.net 44 points 8 months ago (18 children)

Who the fuck is putting cryptographic keys which can dispossess them of so much money on a phone to begin with?

Let them bitch about a malicious app dev stealing it, at least they still have their thumbs.

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[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 44 points 8 months ago (2 children)

monke-beepboop

We need an emote of an ape wearing the barrel on suspenders of destitution.

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 42 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 26 points 8 months ago

Ape version of Ivan the Terrible cradling his dead son.

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[–] goose@hexbear.net 38 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You can't legally use the name Von Doom if you fall for this

[–] D61@hexbear.net 16 points 8 months ago

"Victor Von Doom?"

"No, no, no. The other one, Seymore Von Doom."

[–] macerated_baby_presidents@hexbear.net 37 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

if you have $40k in a software wallet you are a grade-A MORON. Spend $60 on a hardware wallet and this whole class of attacks goes away. I genuinely do feel bad for some of these people. Crypto is in a state right now where you can use it for the intended purpose (crime) if you're technical, and if you're non-technical it is very easy to be victimized by the people doing crime. The genius is that everybody thinks they're pulling one over on somebody else until they get cleaned out.

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 34 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Uncritical support for scumbags scamming fake money off other scumbags

[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There are real victims in this whole thing tho, mainly families of dumbshit idiots that pissed away their family's life savings on this stuff.

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 21 points 8 months ago

Figure 1: My Brother

I don't know how much he's lost to bitcoin scummery but it's in the thousands of not tens of thousands. He keeps having kids, those kids don't deserve their livelihoods getting fucked up. My brother is years behind on rent last I knew it isn't like he's a tech bro throwing pocket change into the meat grinder

[–] DinosaurThussy@hexbear.net 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Crypto scams are on the rise and contrary to popular belief they don’t only target old rich people. My dad was selling his food stamps to “invest” in Bitcoin because his “friend” was an “investor“ who was gonna teach him how to do it. He’s got no savings and he’s actively going into debt over these scams. He seems scarily addicted to it and I don’t pretend to understand why but at the very least it seems to be compulsive behavior and he’s ruined his life over it.

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[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 34 points 8 months ago

critical-support to fake wallets stealing fake money

[–] Tychoxii@hexbear.net 31 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

i say 50% chance the fake wallet is run by the same people as the "real" one

[–] mac@infosec.pub 18 points 8 months ago
[–] buh@hexbear.net 31 points 8 months ago

peppino-scream NOT THE PIZZA ARTIFACTS

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 25 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It’s incredibly funny that North Korea probably doesn’t even need to waste their zero days on these people. All they need is to trick a bunch of these dumbasses and make off with $50 million

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[–] JayTwo@hexbear.net 18 points 8 months ago

If you want a picture of the future, imagine your digital apes getting stolen by fake apps — forever.

[–] TheSpectreOfGay@hexbear.net 13 points 8 months ago (3 children)

who is tim cook, cos im presuming not the guy who made the app

[–] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 33 points 8 months ago

His legal name is Tim Apple

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] TheSpectreOfGay@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago

ah okay, shoulda thought of that but these guys name drop random people constantly, thanks!

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago

rainbow capitalist

[–] D61@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago

"This is good for crypto!" libertarian-approaching

[–] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago

I found a broken vape on the ground with the ape printed on it, L

rip-bozo

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago
[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago
[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago
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