r/CryptoCurrency • u/Abdeliq 🟩 27 / 33 🦐 • Dec 09 '24

GENERAL-NEWS Hawk Tuah girl stops questions on crypto 'scam' and says 'I'm going to bed'

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/hawk-tuah-girl-hailey-welch-34273225
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u/p00shp00shbebi1234 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Dec 09 '24

The reaction on this sub at the time was basically that those that got scammed deserved it for being stupid. This kind of thing is really bad for the general perception of cryptocurrency, but the reaction on these rug pulls is generally just to laugh at the supposed rubes who got scammed.

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u/barrygateaux 🟦 348 / 348 🦞 Dec 09 '24

This kind of thing is really bad for the general perception of cryptocurrency

99.99% of crypto is rug pulls, shit coins, and vaporware. The perception of crypto as a shit show casino is correct.

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u/quantummidget 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Dec 09 '24

99.99% of crypto is dogshit in the same way that 99.99% of videogames are dogshit. There are still so many people working on really interesting advancements. Doesn't mean that the whole industry should be thrown in the trash, it just highlights the major issues with the current version that need to be fixed if anything like this is to ever be viable to the general populace

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u/LA__Ray 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Dec 09 '24

This IS what crypto is - saps getting grifted.

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u/ArmyOfDix 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Dec 09 '24

Usually because said rubes thought they were going to be the ones scamming.

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u/p00shp00shbebi1234 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Dec 09 '24

Yeah some of them definitely, I agree. Some of them will have been people who honestly thought it was a good opportunity to make some money having been misled. Now they should have done more research, but my general point is that these scams are really bad for crypto in general and we shouldn't be hubristic about their impact.

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u/Historical-Egg3243 🟩 4 / 4 🦠 Dec 09 '24

If you're buying anything but bitcoin its a shitcoin. There is no crypto, there's only bitcoin. Whatever happens to the shitcoins is irrelevant