Re: i'm glad there are so many scams and frauds

[Salmon1989]

You have to be really ignorant with no researching and knowledge to fall for phishing sites, e-mail spam etc...


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So you are glad that innocent people who are less knowledgeable about internet safety than you are getting scammed? 

It is a 'learning' experience for them. 

It is kind of like that.
With people getting scammed in hyip/ponzi again and again, users are now more aware of the risk.
With the exchanges that went down with customers' fund, users are now less willing to keep their bitcoin on exchanges.

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[polynesia]

You have to be really ignorant with no researching and knowledge to fall for phishing sites, e-mail spam etc...


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So you are glad that innocent people who are less knowledgeable about internet safety than you are getting scammed? 

It is a 'learning' experience for them. 

It is kind of like that.
With people getting scammed in hyip/ponzi again and again, users are now more aware of the risk.
With the exchanges that went down with customers' fund, users are now less willing to keep their bitcoin on exchanges.

One of the selling points of bitcoin is the decentralized trust.
You don't have to trust anybody, not the government, not the central bank.
So I see no reason why you should trust exchanges with your bitcoins.

[botany]

You have to be really ignorant with no researching and knowledge to fall for phishing sites, e-mail spam etc...


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So you are glad that innocent people who are less knowledgeable about internet safety than you are getting scammed? 

It is a 'learning' experience for them. 

It is kind of like that.
With people getting scammed in hyip/ponzi again and again, users are now more aware of the risk.
With the exchanges that went down with customers' fund, users are now less willing to keep their bitcoin on exchanges.

One of the selling points of bitcoin is the decentralized trust.
You don't have to trust anybody, not the government, not the central bank.
So I see no reason why you should trust exchanges with your bitcoins.

We will have to wait till smart contracts replace escrows.

[onewiseguy]

You have to be really ignorant with no researching and knowledge to fall for phishing sites, e-mail spam etc...


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Split from https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=111855

So you are glad that innocent people who are less knowledgeable about internet safety than you are getting scammed? 

It is a 'learning' experience for them. 

It is kind of like that.
With people getting scammed in hyip/ponzi again and again, users are now more aware of the risk.
With the exchanges that went down with customers' fund, users are now less willing to keep their bitcoin on exchanges.

so people are hoarding coins so value goes down.  it looks like it wont be a true currency anytime soon

[desired_username]

That throws the 'small amount' argument out of the window.

It does not. Cross reference the price and amounts.

The biggest amount of known stolen bitcoin is 144K that the FBI looted from SR1.

Compared to historical and ongoing heists the ones happened in bitcoin world were rather insignificant so far.

[Steigerz]

Users need to practice good security practices. Gone are the days of having Liverpool as a password

[botany]

Users need to practice good security practices. Gone are the days of having Liverpool as a password

Forget passwords. Cold storage is where your bitcoins should be.