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We have reached the “severed fingers and abductions” stage of the crypto revolution - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That some messed up US thing i never understood. Here in germany you are anonymous by default when you win. at most it is published from what state the winner was.

That someone's name and even address is published is so completely unimaginably absurd to me. makes no sense whatsoever.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's actually extremely strong logic behind publishing the winner. It's a whole hell of a lot harder to rig when your name is everywhere when you win.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's a whole hell of a lot harder to rig when your name is everywhere when you win.

This also sounds like a uniquely US problem. Not that there aren't scammers everywhere, but it feels like it would be more prevalent in the US.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

.... That's an absolute wild and hella nationalistic take. There's nothing even slightly uniquely Americans about embezzlement and theft-- Europe has been doing that for thousands of years before America even existed

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I did acknowledge that it's not exclusive to the US. And I didn't say "it is", I said "it feels like".

FTX, Theranos, Fyre Festival, Enron, Bernie Madoff, Logan Paul's CrytoZoo, Charles Ponzi (the OG Ponzi scammer), etc.

While scams exist everywhere, the US seems specially suited to embolden people to run scams. At least high profile ones.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The charismatic snake oil salesman is an American icon.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

I mean, the entire US government is currently being used for scamming.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Scams are far more prevalent in EU cities, I don't know where you got that idea

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

So the guys on the street that scam tourists are high profile scammers?