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One of the most disheartening things we see at Casa is new clients onboarding who tell us they have lots of BTC in an exchange that they want to withdraw to self custody.

Then as we're working with them it becomes obvious that the "exchange" they used is a scam that will never actually honor their withdrawal requests.

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ManyKeys · 48w

Lots of money but with a barely known CEX? These guys' DD is non-existant. I wonder how they got the money for those many bitcoins.

Gareth Jenkinson · 48w

This scares the shit out of me

that's a hard place to be

brian flounders · 48w

does this happen frequently? ouch.

Jorj X McKie · 48w

About a year ago a gal I used to work with (and eventually orange pilled) contacted me and wanted to ‘share an opportunity’ because she was making huge bank with a bitcoin thing. So we meet for breakfast and she shows me a front page of some ‘cloud mining’ thing on her phone… ostensibly o...

eternal_student · 48w

Trust me, it's not a disheartening as a bunch of arrogant devs sabotaging bitclin for personal gain.

nostrich · 48w

Now can you see the power of making a coin so private that the state pushes people into self-custody like it happened with Monero.

nostrich · 48w

Interesting you don't mention if that happens with Ethereum shitcoin too? nostr:nevent1qqszw0l3d058e3rdplvxw8fge7dgg6azre3cvdz8dlzas3r0f93q62gppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddakj7qgcwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxvmm4de6xz6tw9enx6tce8vcxf

Биткойн.БГ · 48w

Actually, they come to us for help after they've tried every possible way to withdraw. The pretense that they want to become our customers is just a thinly veiled lie in the hope that we're able to "hack" this "exchange" and recover their bitcoins.

Name and shame that scams!!

Laeserin · 48w