There's been a lot of hacks lately. I've had to deal with at least 3 recovery attempts so far and it seems like fraudsters and phishers are upping their game.
Please be careful not to click on any links unless you trust the people. Your account's security may be at stake.
Kind of crazy they're bothering with all this at these markets, but naturally, for scammers there is no low point.
Make sure to tell people not to click on spam links or any suspicious links unless you trust the person fully. Even if you're getting messaged on Discord by reputable Hivers, ask them to send you a memo or something involving active keys to prove you're talking to the right person and not an imposter - as was the case recently when someone was pretending to be a high ranking witness attempting to deceive a user to gain access to their private keys.
Generally keep your keys stored and secure and never paste them anywhere, even if you're using keychain, make sure you trust the website and people behind it.
This guy sent me Hive with the memo three times with a interval of a day argh 😫
!PIZZA
Is there no way to flush them out of the Hive? 😭
It would go against freedom of speech/decentralization to do so. Front-ends could potentially blacklist them from view, but for now all we can do is educate people because this can happen anywhere and people should be more careful with sensitive keys/passwords in general.
Oh I see and I get your summation; which is DECENTRALIZATION, thank you for educating and clarifying,I would just be careful and inform others as well.
One should always double-check before clicking any links, even from familiar contacts.
I received this one too, can't even downvote it as it has no comments or posts... Lot of fake *.reward, name impersonating... Seems like low price is promoting even more scammers than before, maybe they think people care less now
Turd blossums. one and all of them.
Does that mean we have finally gone mainstream?!
Thanks for the heads-up. Reblogged.
!BBH
!ALIVE
Actually, it's not all that bad 😉
Someone created an account on Hive, bought a certain amount of coins on the exchange, and simply uses Hive to get a lot of referrals.
At the very least, we see a direct use of Hive to draw attention to another project.
Trustee is an interesting project that has its own crypto card and over 1,000,000 users in Europe. A few months ago I talked about this project with @detlev.
I know the founder of this project and have spoken to him about listing HIVE in this wallet.
According to him, if the HIVE community actively installs and uses the Trustee crypto wallet, he will consider listing HIVE.
He's trying to get a lot of referral quick profit most likely. The place (trusteeglobal.com) is still very dubious, and has lots of bad reviews and low liquidity. "He/She" can also be the venture trying to launch something... definitely not worth it.
The thing about AI is that you can now make these things quite ridiculously easy to validate without putting your security at risk.
But again, don't just trust on everything your eyes see, especially if AI tells you so!
That's right, the person just wants to get a lot of referrals.
Trustee is a good project that you can trust.
I have personally used its crypto card for more than two years.
I know the founder of the project personally and invited him to participate in the HiveFest last year.
If you are interested, you can read about this project and its founder on the Linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/trusteeglobal
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vadymhr
Did he end up creating an account on Hive? Would have been nice to meet him in Malaysia.
Unfortunately, he did not create an account.
I told him about Hive since 2020, when he just founded his Trustee project.
Since then, Hive has lost its users, which were more than 2,500,000, and Trustee now has more than 1,000,000 users in Europe.
Unfortunately, Hive and Trustee are now in different weight categories.
Yeah, unfortunately, I got burned by too many projects like this (more than I can count), some from Europe too. Too much effort and work to try help, and the outcome is just not professional enough, so I gave up in a sense.
For example, allowing users to spam referrals should be an automatic disqualification for all the referrals in the past, in my view, to discourage doing such stupidity, which actually brings the brand down, in my view. No normal user would do that, and clearly, this one is trying to get exposure very quickly, while people have not yet done their investigation.
This is the kind of things that hurt everyone in crypto. Unfortunatly pumped by rewards.
Technology will get (is being) disrupted with AI soon, and the last thing I want is to be caught in a fricking corner of hype from crypto processors and financial approvers.
Sounds negative, but one can do so much, and I like a good critic/constructive way of speaking, but I really don't enjoy European bureaucracy (part of the reason I left). And I was super enthusiastic about these things in the past... thinking that by giving my identity, I could be protected by policymakers. Nah... complete disappointment with the regulation. I know, nothing is perfect; there are pros/cons. Yes... But I had my share.
Hence, it's either not regulated-possible, trustless, and technology-lock-free (aka open source), or I am probably out. Otherwise, please pay me to test, I also have my own hobbies, my freedom, my little corner, as many would say...
I wish him and the project the best, sincerely... And I am not closing doors here, just stating my experience and opinion. Everyone is always free to contact me... but it is worth protecting the free world if you once found one.
$PIZZA slices delivered:
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Thank you for information
Thank you, I have learned great things right now.
Whitelist needed ( like PiHole list) + add websites via community voting. That could be something to scale in and be worth a lot in the future.
Ai will make it all worse. To easy to launch new websites with scam shit on it.
The concern about hacking is real; as precaution, I research the authenticity of links on openAI products before I open. But what I'm not sure is, if the feedback I get is foolproof. Bottom line: extra care is required while surfing online