Tried to give a guy 5 Euro worth of Bitcoin and he got as far as downloading wallet of Satoshi and was about to scan QR when he just started freaking out and saying "sorry I'm not comfortable with this, sorry" .
So getting Bitcoin - fine.
Downloading an app - fine
Scanning a QR code - fuck this I'm out.
Lol
Perhaps he hadn't read the source code for his QR code scanner yet.
Until you know what the code does, you just have to take it on faith that it is doing what it says it is doing. Lots of people think "oh, someone else will have checked, it must be ok because it's open source". If you haven't actually read the source yourself you don't know. Also if you didn't build it yourself from that source then you don't know if the program really was built from the source it claims to, or whether a man in the middle changed something before building.
By that merit , nobody would use a smartphone for anything. Who do you honestly know that audits the code before downloading an app?
Here's my two sense:
The reason he said fuck it I'm out is because people have been conditioned to believe that circumventing traditional finance is somehow immoral or unethical, when the opposite is true.
He agreed to recieve a small amount , he was curious.
He downloaded the app thinking , "Is this going to get me in trouble , is this what they do on the darkweb etc"
By the time he got to the QR code he had talked himself out of it in his head.
Also the QR code was from an LNBits Pos device, which doesnt resemble anything anyone in fiat land is familiar with.
Qr codes are scary.
You should have told him Wallet of Satoshi needed a picture of his balloon knot for official verification of his ID... that might have more comfortable, safety first
QR codes can be links, to viruses and spyware. Identity theft and cybercrime are rampant. His intuition was valid.
No more so than a hyperlink?
True, but I don't fault someone for getting the feeling it's a scam and backing out.
What if you weren't that savvy, and someone says to you "hey I'll give you some free money, just download this app that's TOTALLY safe, then let my phone do this quick communication thing with your phone."
Fuck off, right?
Also almost every QR code reader previews the information represented.
