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Jameson Lopp | 10 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +30 
 Butthurt fool thinks it's about the tech.

Nay, it's a tale as old as time. Scams work because humans allow their greed to overwhelm their logic. He ain't changing human nature.
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Anti-Spasti | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 This guy has reached a really high 🤡 level
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Deleted account | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 This guy has no idea what he is talking about
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HurvajsRumcajs | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 NgU technology is what people are interested in, no doubt.
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krikkebelgium ⚡w/☂️ | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Many a clown in the 80-side of the 80/20 equation. For every smart fella/gal, there are 4 people who didn't quite were in the first row when brainpower was dealt out. They however have other talents, the newest being influencing. Have a rather deep disdain for that talent 😅
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Falling Knife | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 If it was 'about the tech,' I would just print my own $100 dollar bills. Maybe a few $5000 bills.
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mattaroo | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Human nature is most certainly changing. There is an energy that humanity is finally connecting with that is ending the age of barbarism and we are entering a paradigm shift that is changing human nature to a more caring, compassionate and benevolent civilization.
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IngwiePhoenix | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I actually think both points are valid.
Yes, scams work because people let them; be it doing basic things like checking who sent that email or questioning what is being asked of them.
But this is also why crypto has such a stigma in the public - heck, I came WITH this very stigma to Nostr (idk how that happened either). However, while I had the time to take a closer look and actually play around with the tech, most others just... dont, so the stigma of "crypto is for scammers and hackahs" stays and sticks. 
A while ago I just brought it up while people were talking about cybercrime in a café that I frequent and I was immediately met with exactly that: "Oh, the scam thing? So you have some? Wow didn't know you are a millionaire" x.x Haven't brought it up again since, but this is unfortunately - at least here in germany or rather the area I live in, to be fair - what people do indeed think.
The real success stories of people living custodial and sovereign are never broadcasted since good news don't sell, naturally - so the scams is all they know. :/