We have reached the “severed fingers and abductions” stage of the crypto revolution
arstechnica.com
Wave of crypto kidnappings hits Europe.
  • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    … That’s an absolute wild and hella nationalistic take. There’s nothing even slightly uniquely Americans about embezzlement and theft-- Europe has been doing that for thousands of years before America even existed

    • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      12 hours ago

      I did acknowledge that it’s not exclusive to the US. And I didn’t say “it is”, I said “it feels like”.

      FTX, Theranos, Fyre Festival, Enron, Bernie Madoff, Logan Paul’s CrytoZoo, Charles Ponzi (the OG Ponzi scammer), etc.

      While scams exist everywhere, the US seems specially suited to embolden people to run scams. At least high profile ones.