Yet another “brilliant” scheme from a cryptobro. Naturally this caused a gold-rush for scammers who outsourced random people via the gig economy to open PRs for this yml file (example)

  • @[email protected]
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    If you think “crypto” people came up with this I have bad news for you, spamming is as old as the internet, and adding ads to repos is not new. Btw, “cryptobro” is a sexist term that excludes women.

    • Evkob (they/them)
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      Btw, “cryptobro” is a sexist term that excludes women.

      I’m usually that person getting downvoted for insisting on inclusive language so I totally get you, but girl I’ve never met a cryptobro who wasn’t a man.

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              There’s two kinds of crypto scams: Ones that actually involve crypto and ones that don’t.

              Vague, possibly impossible to implement promises about proposed future functionality are an integral part of the crypto sphere!

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                Fair perspective. It is a scam happing in the crypto sphere but that doesn’t necessarily make her a cryptosis. I mean, it comes down to what makes a cryptosis a cryptosis, acting in the crypto sphere or believing in crypto or holding crypto?

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            Damn, OneCoin was bad. Ruja Ignatova was the first crypto scammer I’ve seen talked about in national news and she was also made fun of in a news comedy show over here. A true scam pioneer.

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        Are you one of the people who thinks what you don’t know doesn’t exist? How did you manage to find lemmy if you can’t use a search engine?

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      Btw, “cryptobro” is a sexist term that excludes women.

      We can start calling them “cryptoclowns”.

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      The person responsible for this is a man…

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      11 year ago

      Admins please include instance blocking for comments, thanks. No instance ending in .de ever has anything of value to say.