Scammers hacked the late actor Matthew Perry’s Twitter account and posted a fake plea for cryptocurrency donations in the name of his foundation. The foundation confirmed the post was a scam and urged people not to donate.

The article details several possibilities for how the account may have been compromised, highlighting the importance of strong passwords and multi-factor authentication for securing social media accounts, especially for celebrities with large followings.

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    8 months ago

    Having to do this sort of research just to discover which crypto currency you can’t actually know for sure that a nation state can’t watch but it seems like it might not seems like crypto currency isn’t the best way to guarantee anonymity compared to, say, a suitcase full of cash.

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      8 months ago

      And suitcases full of cash are great, until such time that cash is completely eliminated, which it is well on its way to being, and until you need to leave your country in a hurry, such as Cuba or Venezuela, for example, and are not allowed to carry cash across the border with you. With Crypto, you only have to remember between 12 and 25 words, and you can take your money anywhere on the planet in your brain.

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        8 months ago

        No, with crypto, you have to do a bunch of research and hope that research leads you to the right one and hope that what you’ve read about that one is really true.

        And the “do a bunch of research” part is a huge first hurdle. One I’m not quite sure why you can’t see as a hurdle.

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          8 months ago

          If you are not willing to learn, you should not be in the space at all. You and or somebody you trust needs to do the research. Otherwise, you’re just shooting blindfolded and praying, and that’s no way to live.

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              Everybody in the world has adopted state currencies without doing any research. Now you are being given a choice, which is something humanity has never had. So yes, you have to do some research. I fully believe that the era of fiat currencies and government manipulation of currency is coming to a close. Gold is a useful currency, but not in modern times because you can’t transmit it over the internet, and it’s heavy to carry.

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                8 months ago

                People don’t even research who to vote for. Why would they research which of the countless cryptocurrencies to use?

                I fully believe that the era of fiat currencies and government manipulation of currency is coming to a close.

                Cool. People fully believe that Jesus is coming back too. Based on the same amount of evidence.

                Gold is a useful currency

                Useful currencies don’t lose significant amounts of their value if someone digs a hole in the right place.

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                  Useful currencies don’t lose significant amounts of their value if someone digs a hole in the right place.

                  There is a tiny, tiny amount of gold on planet earth to begin with, and most of it is in the mantle which is inaccessible to us, leaving very little in the crust where it can be reached. Golds “inflation” rate is ~1.5% per year ove thousands of years using gold. People can buy more things with gold. Miners will mine more gold. And people will be able to buy less things with gold because there is more gold. Conversely, if you can buy less things with gold than normal, miners will mine less gold, therefore making less gold to buy things, and the gold will buy more things. Now once we end up in space and can mine asteroids, we might change the story.

                  People don’t even research who to vote for. Why would they research which of the countless cryptocurrencies to use?

                  They won’t, and that is both fortunate and unfortunate. Most people will probably buy Bitcoin since that is what they have heard of for over a decade. And that is not necessarily a great thing because of its transparency. However, going from one crypto to another is super easy. So once they are in Bitcoin, they can go anywhere they wish. The collective market decides which ones rise and which ones fall primarily based on their usefulness, at tasks. Just as a simple example, I used to use Bitcoin, but changed because the fees got too high, and it’s not privacy protecting. And Monero filled both of those roles better.

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                    There is a tiny, tiny amount of gold on planet earth to begin with

                    Cool. How much. Do you know? Can you give me a specific number? Can you guarantee that there is no more gold than that which can be extracted anywhere on Earth and that it will not be enough to devalue gold until it is unrealistic to use? If so, please provide evidence for all of that. If not, you cannot make that statement honestly.

                    They won’t, and that is both fortunate and unfortunate. Most people will probably buy Bitcoin since that is what they have heard of for over a decade. And that is not necessarily a great thing because of its transparency. However, going from one crypto to another is super easy. So once they are in Bitcoin, they can go anywhere they wish. The collective market decides which ones rise and which ones fall primarily based on their usefulness, at tasks. Just as a simple example, I used to use Bitcoin, but changed because the fees got too high, and it’s not privacy protecting. And Monero filled both of those roles better.

                    Got it. Huge numbers of people will get fucked over by choosing the wrong currency and that’s why they will give up using U.S. dollars. Logical.