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A Bitcoin investor was recently scammed out of 9 Bitcoin (worth around $490K) in a fake “Exodus wallet” desktop application for Linux, published in the Canonical Snap Store. This isn’t the first time; if nothing changes, it likely won’t be the last.

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[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

“Trade it for more food with a bigger fool than you”

Or of course buy any other commodity that you require in life. Which isn't the case with any crypto.

[–] RmDebArc_5@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

That only works if you find someone who accepts your money. The difference to crypto is that most people accept money, only few accept crypto