Public Service Announcement: Every hour my team reports 10-15 scammer YouTube videos impersonating me or @MicroStrategy that offer free bitcoin rewards. They pop up as fast as we can have them removed. ☹️
Only trade #bitcoin on a legitimate exchange you trust.
And it's not just Michael Saylor that this happens to. It's also Elon Musk, Vitalik Buterin, Charles Hoskinson, Cathie Wood, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, CZ, and a dozen or so other influencers:
Youtube doesn't care. They hate bitcoin and may even relish that the "crypto" ecosystem is harmed by many Youtube users seeing these and thinking the entire "crypto" space is "scammy".
Twitter has the same problem -- bots running crypto scams. Elon Musk says that is his biggest problem with Twitter, after it having the lack of an edit button, and now that he has a seat on the board at Twitter they may start to do something about it.
And just today, he hinted that maybe Twitter has an incentive to let the bots run amuck ... as without them their metrics might show that Twitter is dying!
Yeah, I didn't realize that this was such a common thing. I don't browse or search YouTube very often, and seldom search with such broad parameters as "Bitcoin 2022 Live", so I don't normally catch scammy results like that, I guess.
I was really surprised that the live stream remained up for hours even after I reported it. Still learning new things every day.
The YouTube video says they have 7k viewers to the live stream. Pretty wild that they let that stay up for this long, but they managed to shut down the conference channel on the first day.
using sat deposits to make it expensive/ unsustainable for bots or scammers to pop out onto any social media platform should really be a thing
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There are hundreds of these every day, at least five to ten at any one time that haven't yet been taken down.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=saylor&sp=CAISBBABQAE%253D
view on twitter.comAnd it's not just Michael Saylor that this happens to. It's also Elon Musk, Vitalik Buterin, Charles Hoskinson, Cathie Wood, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, CZ, and a dozen or so other influencers:
Youtube doesn't care. They hate bitcoin and may even relish that the "crypto" ecosystem is harmed by many Youtube users seeing these and thinking the entire "crypto" space is "scammy".
Twitter has the same problem -- bots running crypto scams. Elon Musk says that is his biggest problem with Twitter, after it having the lack of an edit button, and now that he has a seat on the board at Twitter they may start to do something about it.
And just today, he hinted that maybe Twitter has an incentive to let the bots run amuck ... as without them their metrics might show that Twitter is dying!
view on twitter.comHere's a prior post on SN in which this topic was discussed:
HN: YouTube crypto giveaway scams are out of control #8210 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29952915
And another one:
Saylor: we need an orange check program, powered by bitcoin & lightning, to combat spam, scams, & bots across all social media platforms. #10338 https://twitter.com/saylor/status/1490019056036069377
And this post (by me) has good info:
Eradicating Giveaway Scams —No Easy And Effective Method Found https://bitcointech.medium.com/eradicating-giveaway-scams-no-easy-and-effective-method-found-3ca4d556edf
Oh look, even in early days for SN there was a post about giveaway scams:
BitcoinOrg Hacked: Giveaway Scam Promising Users to Double Their BTC #2422 https://cryptopotato.com/bitcoinorg-hacked-giveaway-scam-promising-users-to-double-their-btc/
Yeah, I didn't realize that this was such a common thing. I don't browse or search YouTube very often, and seldom search with such broad parameters as "Bitcoin 2022 Live", so I don't normally catch scammy results like that, I guess.
I was really surprised that the live stream remained up for hours even after I reported it. Still learning new things every day.
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Wallet address doesn't appear to have caught any suckers, thankfully: https://mempool.space/address/1695sbrPhGRVVZXbTu2ZYFxpnGQRP3s3sw
The YouTube video says they have 7k viewers to the live stream. Pretty wild that they let that stay up for this long, but they managed to shut down the conference channel on the first day.
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