Just got a scam call.
It was a person purporting to be from Blockchain.com, and sharing that they would release an account with 4.2 bitcoins for a $500 fee. This is called an 'advance' scam, which collects money from a victim and then disappears without fulfilling the promised action.
I asked them if their parents were proud of what they did. She said she was in customer service, and that it was a very, very personal question. So I asked again.
They hung up.
@Willow nah.
@signalapp propably just added a new #Shitcoin - #Scam to their #App because the last one was so well recieved...
@dansup well, @signalapp too is #proprietary and #centralized and peddles a #Cryptocurrency #Scamcoin named #MobileCoin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJoO2uWrX1M
Use #XMPP+#OMEMO (i.e. @monocles / #monoclesChat & @gajim / #gajim) instead!
https://monocles.social/@monocles/113925173206088469
No #PII (like a #PhoneNumber!) required...
https://docs.monocles.eu/account/account/
Truly #decentralized, #OpenSource, #MultiVendor & #MultiProvider 1 with real #E2EE using #SelfCustody of all the keys!
#FACT: @signalapp is #proprietary, #centralized, #SingleVendor & #SingleProvider solution to a problem sufficiently solved by #XMPP+#OMEMO!
Because collecting #PII like #PhoneNumbers, restricting functionality based off it and then shoving a #Scamcoin [#MobileCoin] into it disqualifies it in any serious Cryptographers' Eyes...
@JoeRess Don't you use Telegram extensively? Instead of just accepting donations via #scamcoin Telegram built their own #Cryptoscam, called TON.
The only way to get away from this crap is to use a proper, federated messaging protocol. #XMPP has been around for 25 years now.
"I just heard this guy blab about pretty much nothing... He said something about web 2"
#Scamcoin "talk tuah"
“There’s just this mantra a lot of times that everything bitcoin does is drug money, or sex trafficking. Which is just not true.”
Obviously that's not the whole picture! 
Sometimes crypto is plain old human trafficking, or gambling, or outright stealing from people, or money laundering, or
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/31/bitcoin-2024-conference-donald-trump
Wann plant die @BaFin denn gegen die #Worldcoin-#Betrug|smasche vorzugehen?
Oder muss erst @Bundesverband samt geprellter "Nutzer*innen" klagen??
Ich mein, Verstoß gegen #Prospektpflicht (vgl. #Binance) & illegale Emittierung von #Schuldscheinen, #Wertpapieren und/oder #eGeld sollten doch reichen für nen unangemeldeten Besuch bei jenen "Orb Operators"...
@JoeRess @nonlinear
The #USA military is by far the biggest #polluter on the planet and fueled by a pretty long running #scamCoin known as the #petroDollar.
Petroleum is in the name.
This article is theatre by comparison.
#fiatCurrency.#USDollar #deDollarisation #degrowthNow #bitcoin
