Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: $490K Swindle
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Edit: There’s a short follow-up to this post: Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: Follow up. tl;dr: A Bitcoin investor was recently scammed out of 9 Bitcoin (worth around $490K) in a fake “Exodus wallet” desktop application for Linux, published in the Canonical Snap Store. This isn’t the first time, and if nothing changes, it likely won’t be the last. This post turned out longer than I expected. So if you don’t have the time there’s a briefer summary at the bottom under “In summary (the tl;dr)” along with my suggestions on what Canonical should do now.

A Bitcoin investor was recently scammed out of 9 Bitcoin (worth around $490K) in a fake “Exodus wallet” desktop application for Linux, published in the Canonical Snap Store. This isn’t the first time; if nothing changes, it likely won’t be the last.

  • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Bitcoin is just a scam in general.

    “Bro, I’ll sell you this really complicated number. No one else has it.”

    “What can I do with it?”

    “Sell it for more money to a bigger fool than you.”

    "I’m in.*

    • RmDebArc_5@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      7 months ago

      “Bro, I’ll trade your food for this fancy piece of paper”

      “What can I do with it”

      “Trade it for more food with a bigger fool than you”

      “I’m in”

      (Not saying that you’re wrong, just your argument is stupid)

      • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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        7 months ago

        “Trade it for more food with a bigger fool than you”

        Or of course buy any other commodity that you require in life. Which isn’t the case with any crypto.

        • RmDebArc_5@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          7 months ago

          That only works if you find someone who accepts your money. The difference to crypto is that most people accept money, only few accept crypto