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Re:Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams by rawtxapp on Sunday June 06, 2021 @01:58PM (#27414911)
If someone technical enough to have a hardware wallet and "smart" enough to have amassed half a million dollars falls for this scam, I think it tells you more about how much (misplaced) trust they put in Apple rather than how careless they were, but that's just my opinion.
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Re:Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams by ButtSpark69 on Sunday June 06, 2021 @02:51PM (#27415314)
I don't think this is a good argument at all. They'd have to be "technical" enough to write down 13 words when instructed, and they'd have to be "smart" enough to happen to be early.

So basically no technical or smarts are needed to get to this situation. If anything this suggests the person is your fairly average "dumb" user.

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Re:Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams by WalterBright on Sunday June 06, 2021 @02:38PM (#27415205)
If I had half a million in bitcoin, I'd divide it up into multiple wallets.
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Re:Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams by richardwhiuk on Sunday June 06, 2021 @02:18PM (#27415050)
The real issue is Bitcoin here.
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Re:Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams by paulpauper on Sunday June 06, 2021 @03:00PM (#27415398)
Bitcoin makes scamming so much more lucrative . So many pple have been scammed such as fake apps and giveaway scams.
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Re:Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams by craftinator on Sunday June 06, 2021 @04:17PM (#27415945)
s/Bitcoin/Apple
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Re:Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams by bradleykingz on Sunday June 06, 2021 @02:57PM (#27415367)
I'm surprised too... He had his life savings in Bitcoin?
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Re:Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams by rawtxapp on Sunday June 06, 2021 @03:09PM (#27415460)
A good friend of mine has ~98% of his savings in BTC since 2015 and know quite a bit of other people with high % of their savings in it. For those that can ignore the short term volatility, who have good incomes as safety nets (say FAANG jobs) to weather any storms, those who don't trust their governments and who are relatively young to recover any large losses, it can be an acceptable tradeoff (needless to say, a very profitable one as well).
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