Steve Wozniak sues YouTube over ongoing bitcoin scams

Re:Steve Wozniak sues YouTube over ongoing bitcoin scams by reaperducer on Thursday July 23, 2020 @11:59PM (#23935566)

I think the days of cryptocurrency being for the "savvy" are long past.

It's been featured in everything from The Today Show to supermarket tabloids. There is no counting the number of crypto buying tutorials on the web. There are crypto ATMs. I've heard retires with no computer talking about it.

It's not mainstream the way a savings account is, but it's not the exclusive club the promoters want people to think it is.

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Re:Steve Wozniak sues YouTube over ongoing bitcoin scams by blaser-waffle on Friday July 24, 2020 @12:23PM (#23941336)

There was another post on HN just 2-3 days ago, about how an HN-poster was taking a cab in Sydney and the cabbie was talking to him about BTC.

Cue the inevitable Joe Kennedy comparison: Kennedy Sr. supposedly got a shoe-shine one day, and had a conversation with the shoe-shine boy about said boy's hot stock tips. Kennedy realized everything was overheated and overhyped, and pulled his cash out of the market; the crash of '29 happened not long after.

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Re:Steve Wozniak sues YouTube over ongoing bitcoin scams by ta17711771 on Friday July 24, 2020 @02:36PM (#23942998)

Saw this exact comparison 2-3 years ago.

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Re:Steve Wozniak sues YouTube over ongoing bitcoin scams by oivey on Friday July 24, 2020 @02:08AM (#23936318)

Even before it showed up in the mainstream Bitcoin was famous for its scams.

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