The disappointing tea.xyz
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I got a pull request from "tea.xyz" related individual and unraveled a mess of a disappointing project.

Yet another “brilliant” scheme from a cryptobro. Naturally this caused a gold-rush for scammers who outsourced random people via the gig economy to open PRs for this yml file (example)

  • Evkob@lemmy.ca
    185·
    9 months ago

    Btw, “cryptobro” is a sexist term that excludes women.

    I’m usually that person getting downvoted for insisting on inclusive language so I totally get you, but girl I’ve never met a cryptobro who wasn’t a man.

        • umbraroze@kbin.social
          3·
          9 months ago

          Damn, OneCoin was bad. Ruja Ignatova was the first crypto scammer I’ve seen talked about in national news and she was also made fun of in a news comedy show over here. A true scam pioneer.

          • umbraroze@kbin.social
            6·
            9 months ago

            There’s two kinds of crypto scams: Ones that actually involve crypto and ones that don’t.

            Vague, possibly impossible to implement promises about proposed future functionality are an integral part of the crypto sphere!

            • Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de
              2·
              9 months ago

              Fair perspective. It is a scam happing in the crypto sphere but that doesn’t necessarily make her a cryptosis. I mean, it comes down to what makes a cryptosis a cryptosis, acting in the crypto sphere or believing in crypto or holding crypto?