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October 28, 2014, 08:12:41 PM |
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if those fkn idiots would demand dollars, would this be bad publicity for the dollar?
tens of thousands of years of violence and genocide and war crimes and all this sheit were managed without bitcoin.
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AlexSm
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October 28, 2014, 08:14:52 PM |
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October 29, 2014, 01:09:00 AM |
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no publicity is bad publicity  |
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October 29, 2014, 02:37:18 AM |
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Not necessarily bad...just a misconception that fools will not believe into...research is key.
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October 29, 2014, 02:56:33 AM |
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What if, they do have a corpse or a cadaver that just died from ebola? They chop it up into several parts, spread it across the country, then detonate each on in a highly populated public area.
The whole country would fall to its knees within days.
They need to show proof.
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October 29, 2014, 03:57:29 AM |
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Lol you've got to laugh at these childish scammmers. Nobody is going to fall for this and certainly no one is going to pay it. They're just trying their luck. Hope they get caught.
hate those guys who spread some horrible news to panic us and they should be punished to make sure the order of our society. |
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October 29, 2014, 04:06:52 AM |
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Lol you've got to laugh at these childish scammmers. Nobody is going to fall for this and certainly no one is going to pay it. They're just trying their luck. Hope they get caught.
hate those guys who spread some horrible news to panic us and they should be punished to make sure the order of our society. You're talking about Fox News, no? |
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October 29, 2014, 04:55:21 AM |
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October 29, 2014, 05:23:57 AM |
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Not necessarily bad...just a misconception that fools will not believe into...research is key.
Yeah.. But bad publicity or not, its still publicity. Still a + for bitcoin. |
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October 29, 2014, 05:40:37 AM |
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if those fkn idiots would demand dollars, would this be bad publicity for the dollar?
tens of thousands of years of violence and genocide and war crimes and all this sheit were managed without bitcoin.
peoples mind set is actually changing right now, alot of people dont think of bitcoin as a scam currency, but as "another currency".. so when news talks about bitcoin being used, the mindset is not "oh crap bitcoin is bad" but more like "oh the scammers dont want to use a credit card, cash or paypal" there was yet another use of bitcoin on the TV show 'the goodwife' this year where the blackmailer tool that encrypts hard drives was the centre of attention and the payment method was bitcoin.. the emphasis was on the scam not bitcoin. bitcoin was just a side mention, treated as just a useful payment method.. there was no chatter about bitcoin being bad, no chatter about bitcoin being hard to purchase or even any chatter about risks of bitcoin.. the characters simply paid the amount and then argued for half the episode about the scammers |
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Please do your own research & respect what is written here as both opinion & information gleaned from experience. many people replying with insults but no on-topic content substance, automatically are 'facepalmed' and yawned at
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October 31, 2014, 02:43:28 AM |
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Not cool, why do people feel the need to spread hate?
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October 31, 2014, 05:52:20 AM |
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Not necessarily bad...just a misconception that fools will not believe into...research is key.
Yeah.. But bad publicity or not, its still publicity. Still a + for bitcoin. I would disagree with your mindset. If something is being used for illicit purposes then it will not only cause people to want to disassociate with it, but it will also attract regulatory attention. I would not however say that asking for a randsome in bitcoin to be negative for bitcoin. I would say the reason they are asking for this is to avoid direct contact with law enforcement when they go to collect the randsom (instead of having to physically pick up cash). |
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October 31, 2014, 07:05:49 AM |
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If they took the ransom in FIAT, would it also be bad news for FIAT?
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cbeast
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October 31, 2014, 07:11:30 AM |
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Not necessarily bad...just a misconception that fools will not believe into...research is key.
Yeah.. But bad publicity or not, its still publicity. Still a + for bitcoin. I would disagree with your mindset. If something is being used for illicit purposes then it will not only cause people to want to disassociate with it, but it will also attract regulatory attention. I would not however say that asking for a randsome in bitcoin to be negative for bitcoin. I would say the reason they are asking for this is to avoid direct contact with law enforcement when they go to collect the randsom (instead of having to physically pick up cash). They need to trace the source of these threats and take them seriously. It doesn't matter if they are asking for money or a prisoner release, you cannot negotiate with terrorists. |
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October 31, 2014, 07:21:28 AM |
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This is called extortion inoculation. BS enough times and nobody will pay BTC to any extortionist.
Actually, I see it as a business model: Pretend to be an extortionist and get paid via BTC to cease whatever via paying yourself, then pretend to purchase miners from BFL and have the fiat in your bank within two days via BitPay. Fuckin' genius, if you ask me. |
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October 31, 2014, 12:10:07 PM |
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it seems the time is come for ebola coin !  |
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October 31, 2014, 12:19:35 PM |
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Doubt this will be the last time people try to extort bitcoins outta people like this. it seems the time is come for ebola coin ! Ugh, don't give the alt coin devs any ideas  . |
Not to be confused with the user sifter  . |
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October 31, 2014, 12:37:46 PM |
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Doubt this will be the last time people try to extort bitcoins outta people like this. it seems the time is come for ebola coin ! Ugh, don't give the alt coin devs any ideas . There has already been multiple threads about it, there was a Scrypt Ebolacoin and a few joke threads. Here is an article about donations for Bitcoin to Sierra Leone to help fund aid workers http://www.coindesk.com/sierra-leone-group-diverts-bitcoin-campaign-fight-ebola/There are other options as well, the Bitcoin miners could choose to exclude those transactions from the Blockchain as well. |
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October 31, 2014, 01:53:03 PM |
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It doesn't matter what currency they use, they are blackmailers. They just think that this would be a safe way to get paid and run away when in reality those btc would be tagged and no one would want to touch them again.
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October 31, 2014, 08:33:08 PM |
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This is called extortion inoculation. BS enough times and nobody will pay BTC to any extortionist.
That's a weird form of extortion if there is one Viral warfare ransom |
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