The disappointing tea.xyz
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I got a pull request from "tea.xyz" related individual and unraveled a mess of a disappointing project.

Yet another “brilliant” scheme from a cryptobro. Naturally this caused a gold-rush for scammers who outsourced random people via the gig economy to open PRs for this yml file (example)

    • umbraroze@kbin.social
      2·
      9 months ago

      Damn, OneCoin was bad. Ruja Ignatova was the first crypto scammer I’ve seen talked about in national news and she was also made fun of in a news comedy show over here. A true scam pioneer.

      • umbraroze@kbin.social
        6·
        9 months ago

        There’s two kinds of crypto scams: Ones that actually involve crypto and ones that don’t.

        Vague, possibly impossible to implement promises about proposed future functionality is an integral part of the crypto sphere!

        • Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de
          2·
          9 months ago

          Fair perspective. It is a scam happing in the crypto sphere but that doesn’t necessarily make her a cryptosis. I mean, it comes down to what makes a cryptosis a cryptosis, acting in the crypto sphere or believing in crypto or holding crypto?