Bitcoin wallet Electrum gets hacked and users lose their magic beans. Moderator of r/Electrum shows up to sperg out about how it's all a conspiracy by evil (((fiat))).

1  2018-12-28 by POST_BUSSY

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Check out the linked thread linking to r/Cryptocurrency too. Good stuff.

The only point you'll ever have is that you represent the sad, fedora-wearing, bloated face of capitalism in the 21st century.

Unfairly made famous and rich through copied ideas and appealing to kids. And yet is driven by some bizarre need for attention to spout insane, teenage edge lord style views. You are clearly not all that up on politics (or anything, maybe you can code?) yet your wealth has given you an oversized platform of confused 12 to 16 year olds to yell "sjwjjwjwj" at over and over again.

Honestly, I don't give a shit if you've been driven mad by fame or some bullshit. When I see amazing creative people dying depressed in poverty every day and you get to sit on twitter and make half assed 'now yur the nazi' comments, it's fucking sickening.

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  1. It's not a hack. It's a standard phishing attack.
  2. Yes, there are definitely several victims that we can account for.
  3. It's not all a conspiracy. It's just being blown out of proportion to push anti-PR for bitcoin.

Good trolling OP.

It's not a hack. It's a standard phishing attack.

It's not strictly a hack, but the exploit used is a phishing attack through the network itself. What a security flaw lmao ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚.

but I cannot account for anywhere near the amount claimed.

Maybe you suck at counting?

push anti-PR for bitcoin

No one needs to push anti-PR for Bitcoin. It's doing that all by itself. Through people like you actually.

You seem to have a lot of trouble understanding why regular people are ok with fiat and banks. It's because fiat is fucking simple to use, and the banks / government have responsibility to make sure your fiat is not fucked with, so less personal responsibility for the user. But go on believing that 'be your own bank' will take over the world.

It's because fiat is fucking simple to use

Ahuh. Debit cards, credit cards, checking accounts, savings accounts, ATMs, pin numbers, stolen identity, credit bureaus. All very simple. That's called institutionalization. You grew up with those principles, so now, yes, you consider them simple.


Bitcoin is simple especially compared to all that.

You just have to not give your keys to other people, which installing malware on your computer does.

Bitcoin is simple

So having to verify the checksum and public key of the wallet software you downloaded counts as simple?

Listen, crypto works just like fiat.

You go up to a person and exchange your crypto for goods and services, just like fiat.

You just have to remember to verify the signature of the wallet you're transferring to, and maybe use a smart contract, oh and definitely never use an exchange--cold store your coins. Also, you should memorize your wallet and key numbers because writing it down is just asking for it to get lost. Oh, and be sure to record your basis price and the value when you trade it for reporting gains and losses otherwise that's totally tax fraud and you'll get caught eventually. And be prepared to wait a while since bitcoin can only process like 7 transactions a second total.

But other than that, man it's just like fiat. Better, even, because of how convenient it is.

If you donโ€™t understand why bitcoin is better than every single other currency and asset, hereโ€™s a basic break down for you - bitcoin is excitement dollars. Every other asset is tied to pesky shit like companies and economies. They can all underperform. Bitcoin is literally worth how excited you are. Even after youโ€™ve spent all of your money on bitcoin, you can just get more excited and your money is worth more.

Bitcoin is literally worth how excited you are everyone else is.

This is why we need to constantly evangelize friends and well-wishers for BEEG PAMPS

ah yes, the simple keys of bitcoin that are impossible to remember and if something happens to it you lose all your money, forever with no way to get it back.

also bitcoin is just a glorified and deified spreadsheet cmv

Buttcoin is literally just a digital version of art trading. It's hard to move, there's no backing, and prices are whatever the people buying feels like.

I would say "don't forget to afford your medicine", but after investing so much into magic beans you likely can't even afford the thought of medicine, let alone actually buying it.

crypto currencies can never fail; they can only be failed.

Kinda like communism ๐Ÿค”๐Ÿค”๐Ÿค”๐Ÿค”

True bitcoin has never been tried.

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creeeptos and their magic beans are funny. Ask 40 creeptos about crypto's future and you'll get 40 different predictions based on their graphs and charts and "I'm a day trader!" and things. Most of them will say creepto is bull now!!!! but then it drops back down and usually they will tell you "it's a reset before the mooon!" I love the drama in this ponzi scheme.

Crypto for babs:

  • It's a correction, it was over valued!
  • To the moon!

Peak Reddit is thinking your smarter than everyone consistently pulling in 300%+ eoy returns because you can reference the single financial scheme every other nongoloid on this site can drown itself in drool over.

The dude in question seems to have deleted his comments in the linked thread and here.

In fact, he seems to have scrubbed a lot of his history; despite his account being six years old, his oldest comment is a month back.