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Title: [2017-11-24] Bitcoin Gold Wallet Scam Nets $3 Million in Illicit Earnings Post by: bbc.reporter on November 24, 2017, 12:55:46 AM I am starting to think that this might be a convoluted scam by the bona fide members of the bitcoin gold development team themselves.
In any case, can someone post a guide on how we get our share of BTG, and is this site safe to use? https://btgwallet.online/ https://media.coindesk.com/uploads/2017/11/mybtgwallet-728x325.png In an interview, victims blamed the association of the website with the official bitcoin gold project as a source of the effectiveness of the operation. One of the victims, Mikel Martin, explained to CoinDesk: "I reached this site by following the link at [the] bitcoingold.org official website so I trusted it. Yesterday afternoon I noticed both my BTC and BTG stored in that wallet were gone." Before the thefts became apparent, the team behind bitcoin gold – an effort to create a new version of bitcoin that would restrict the types of hardware that can be used for mining – promoted mybtgwallet.com on their Twitter account, assuring users that it was safe to use on multiple occasions. The person behind the service was, to an extent, ingratiated in the nascent BTG community, including its Slack channel. The website was developed by a user named John Dass, though it is unclear whether this is the developer's actual name or a pseudonym. Read the full article https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-gold-wallet-scam-nets-3-million-illicit-earnings/ |
