Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: $490K Swindle
popey.com
tl;dr: A Bitcoin investor was recently scammed out of 9 Bitcoin (worth around $490K) in a fake “Exodus wallet” desktop application for Linux, published in the Canonical Snap Store. This isn’t the first time, and if nothing changes, it likely won’t be the last. This post turned out longer than I expected. So if you don’t have the time there’s a briefer summary at the bottom under “In summary (the tl;dr)” along with my suggestions on what Canonical should do now.

A Bitcoin investor was recently scammed out of 9 Bitcoin (worth around $490K) in a fake “Exodus wallet” desktop application for Linux, published in the Canonical Snap Store. This isn’t the first time; if nothing changes, it likely won’t be the last.

  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
    2·
    10 months ago

    “Trade it for more food with a bigger fool than you”

    Or of course buy any other commodity that you require in life. Which isn’t the case with any crypto.

    • RmDebArc_5@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      That only works if you find someone who accepts your money. The difference to crypto is that most people accept money, only few accept crypto