With the advent of the Atomic Wallet debacle, I find it comforting that nostr:npub1j9kttlc86w63emmldd4h74rekyqpksqup6p9trhp5gjsf374qlyszvuswx gave a verdict of "obfuscated". Meaning, while at the time, (2021) we didn't find anything to indicate any wrongdoing - there was an effort to obfuscate any findings.
That's the problem with scams - you can find indications of x, y, z - but until somebody loses their money or until somebody files a lawsuit - it's not a scam. They're just "suspicious" or doing x of y things that are suspicious.
New Zealand = heaven
I'm currently enrolled in the Google/Coursera Cybersecurity course, but now have reached the end of the 1 week trial. They do not accept Bitcoin and it's such a pain to get a working Visa/Mastercard card.
Even my Paypal isn't working.
It's when things like these that make me believe that Bitcoin is the way.
Disappointed that we are subject to a DMCA takedown by centralized custodians - when all I did was quote from their own Terms and Conditions that state that they use transaction analytic software.
There has to be a way to Barbara Streisand these custodians on an uncensorable platform.
Maybe mirror the reviews on Nostr?
That is the way it should be.
@walletscrutiny is one of the first recipients of this grant. Thank you nostr:npub1kmwdmhuxvafg05dyap3qmy42jpwztrv9p0uvey3a8803ahlwtmnsnhxqk9
Awww, poor pepe. But be happy Pepe. Many people are like that.
Hey wanna hear a depressing story?
I'm just like you.
Here's the story, last week, our neighbor's child - with no underpants went inside our home. YEAH. He had po po all over his legs.
He is mentally disabled. Scared my daughters.
His mother is suicidal, single, and unemployed.
Even the mother's siblings won't help!
So now, I am writing a letter to my dysfunctional government.
But my dysfunctionaly government is shit. Hahaha.
They will pass you around like Russell Westbrook can't shoot. Shot clock goes to zero.
Cheer up pepe.
Everything will be alright.
*Evil laugh*
But today, it's not rappers, it's Crypto Startup Founders
There's a huge wave of dead bitcoin-related apps that I'm currently tangling with. I suppose they're still the remnants of the FTX and Crypto Winter phenomenon of late.
It's a brutal evolutionary mechanism that turns the crypto-billionaires of yesterday into runaway fugitives with hardware wallets up their asses.
Many of these apps are actually foreign based in formerly crypto friendly countries.
The ones that do survive - actually do put Bitcoin to good use: remittances, bill payments, mobile load, etc. They compete with fiat apps that do the same job minus the advantage of a blockchain.
Testing possibly similar app with One Key
Massive human trafficking ring in Southeast Asia busted.
Workers are coerced to ask their countrymen to invest in cryptocurrencies.
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1765387/human-trafficking-firm-busted-in-clark
Filipinos migrating in Canada - regretting it.
Some even give out construction materials for the informal settlers to build on public land.
At the top of the heap is the politician with a wider network of gambling profits. Every election, they gamble their war chest by paying off voters, basically giving the masses what they want: be it a flat screen TV, a washing machine - and do it in a fun format - like a live gameshow - sponsored of course by the political baron.
Meanwhile the real problems are not addressed.
Another one is cockfighting.
Another one is drugs.
Another one is theft
You could arrange the hierarchy of how people who don't work eat and you'll get these. Oftentimes, the family is interspersed. There's a person who works a minimum wage job, and there's a husband who gambles and drinks.