I see people on Twitter being surprised that hackers didn’t use that hack to crash the stock market or start world war 3. It shows how much power they had and what else they could’ve done. Some script writers may already be coming up with movie plots.
Wasnt very imagnative or targeted. Should have hacked desirable brands and made offers. 'I have 1000 Model S available, 99% off, only $1000 to first 1000 [retards] who send..." And hacked the Apple account. "Steve jobs birthday: 10,000 iphones 12's available to the first 10,000 [sheep] who send $250"
I thought same actually. They probably still have crypto keys around somewhere. If hacker is decent dev 100k is like entry yearly salery in silicon valley right? Why go to prison for 5-10 or more. I would reccomend hacker to take the money out on deathbed, before passing away , and give to to relatives. So in worst scenario could get free ride toward jail but never reach the destination. Elon should have tweeted "I have sick cat on mars and legs are soon to be amputated using medieval tools...please contribute. Currently we need rocket fuel to break out of earths gravitational field. That seems authenitc script.
To me, the problem isn't in the bitcoin itself, and it's supposedly "unsafe". It's that people still don't understand what it is. And that's why it's so easy to fool people who don't quite understand cryptocurrencies. Because they'll believe that it's easy to make money on them, and that someone will give them away for free. Yeah, it's sad that that happened. Because since the verified accounts could be hacked, Twitter has become even more dangerous for other users. But that doesn't mean you should blame Bitcoin for everything. I don't really like it myself, it's very unstable. But that doesn't mean it can only be used for scamming purposes. To me, Blockchain is a promising area that will earn more recognition in the future and develop even more. The problem is only in people who don't want to develop and accept new technologies. This is the past century when something new is associated with scams in people's minds.
Lets not forget genesis block of BTC. The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_block Gov&elite symbiosis does not like competition in scamming business. It has been their monopoly. Elite means best. Not just a regular scammer. Its well organized system, and we dont call it organized crime. Nothing illegal by definition of law if laws can be changed by lobbyists who orchestrate byrocrats to do so with the money that previous scams pulled in. Looks more like rigged investment or insider trading at large scale. System is too big to fail? Not forever, everything had its time. Bitcoin freedom is double edged sword. Use for bad or good. Currently not much freedom...exchenge fees are so high. Perhaps more money has been been taken by exchenge fees than the bailout mentioned in genesis block.... Did it solve problem? That "illegal" twitter scam gaining 100k is nothing compered to what elite scammers have pulled off legaly. Twitter scam will probably get decent news coverage and attention however. While proffessionals work in the shadows hiring CEOs to do "lifting" work. This could be my life.
Come on man, I never seen politicians, celebrities and CEOs with millions of followers on message boards, moving markets, and influencing masses. And politicians are caring, FBI is caring, markets are caring, Twitter stock dropped last night, while none of that applies to some message boards. You seem to lack back understanding of the modern world.
Back in the day yahoo boards were full of pump and dump on penny stocks but you're right it graduated to more mainstream and the algo's that link to twitter messages (trump tweets for example) yes do move the market in mass. Thats why i said 2.0 My point is twitter is probably 99% mental diarrhea, same as the old boards. Its just links better across topics. ok maybe 99% is high, but you get my point.