Hackers nab $500k as Enigma is compromised weeks before its ICO

Re:Hackers nab $500k as Enigma is compromised weeks before i... by Steeeve on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @03:13PM (#15075491)

Coursecoin is going to change the academic world altogether. The combination of a distributed ledger algorithm with online academia opens up a world of education to people who otherwise could not afford it. Student loans are out of control, but with course coin, the students earn their tuition by mining coins. All the overhead of an academic institution is distributed over a wide array of systems that are responsible for keeping track of enrollment, grades, and personal progress on the blockchain. Teachers get paid better because they get paid in coursecoins as they are mined. They have an actual incentive for their students to remain interested and to succeed.

The ICO will be raising money to bring on new material and for marketing of the courses. We expect 100,000 students in the first quarter, at which point the coin value on the open market is expected to skyrocket beyond all other blockchain coins.

Send your donation or investment money to [email protected] (seriously, please don't.). We will handle the rest.

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Re:Hackers nab $500k as Enigma is compromised weeks before i... by JoblessWonder on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @03:50PM (#15075766)

Coursecoin regrets to inform its prospective student-investor-miners that there was a compromise to the secure ICO system before launch. There will be no courses or refunds. Thank you for your interest and investment in Coursecoin.

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Re:Hackers nab $500k as Enigma is compromised weeks before i... by kbenson on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @04:42PM (#15076190)

> there was a compromise to the secure ICO system before launch.

I assume that's a typo, and you mean before lunch on the day it was announced. :)

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Re:Hackers nab $500k as Enigma is compromised weeks before i... by 659087 on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @09:03PM (#15077685)

I had to do a double take to make sure this was a joke, because it's pretty much exactly the type of thing I'd expect people to be trampling each other to give their money to on cryptocurrency forums.

> Send your donation or investment money to [email protected] (seriously, please don't.)

On many of those same forums, I expect people would be sending money anyway, and justifying it by saying that "they have to say the seriously please don't part to avoid the SEC, but they don't mean it".

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