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Author Topic: Online Wallet Scams (Post the names/urls of sites that may have scammed you!)  (Read 1709 times)
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June 29, 2014, 08:03:04 PM
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I heard MT Gox scammed a few people Tongue

Too soon? Tongue Undecided

Not really an online wallet, though. Although, it did seem like quite a few people did use them as a wallet, mining address, etc. Pretty crazy. I would have thought after so many scams by centralized bitcoin services, that so many people wouldn't have trusted an exchange to be a wallet service... but knowing this community, this will only continue....

I hear people are still mining to them and some pools had to block the addresses

And someone on reddit just sent mtgox 800 btc

Unbelievable. A trustless, decentralized currency, and people became so used to sending their coins to a centralized exchange for storage that this is still happening! Quite unnerving....  Undecided

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June 29, 2014, 11:42:09 PM
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I lost some at Instawallet, but AFAIK, that wasn't a scam and was a legit hack. I just didn't bother to recover my funds, since it was so little at the time. It was less then 0.1 BTC and they were not worth what they are now, so I didn't bother.

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June 30, 2014, 04:47:35 AM
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I heard MT Gox scammed a few people Tongue

Too soon? Tongue Undecided

Not really an online wallet, though. Although, it did seem like quite a few people did use them as a wallet, mining address, etc. Pretty crazy. I would have thought after so many scams by centralized bitcoin services, that so many people wouldn't have trusted an exchange to be a wallet service... but knowing this community, this will only continue....

I hear people are still mining to them and some pools had to block the addresses

And someone on reddit just sent mtgox 800 btc

Unbelievable. A trustless, decentralized currency, and people became so used to sending their coins to a centralized exchange for storage that this is still happening! Quite unnerving....  Undecided

TBH, I can't really understand why some bitcoiners want to have a "bitcoin bank", when the most important point of bitcoin is decentralization.

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