source: https://nitter.it/web3isgreat/status/1532775402468478977
From Super Bowl ads to Bitcoin ATMs, #cryptocurrency seems to be everywhere lately. Although it’s yet to become a mainstream #payment method, reports to the #FTC show it’s an alarmingly common method for scammers to get peoples’ money. Since the start of 2021, more than 46,000 people have reported losing over $1 billion in crypto to scams – that’s about one out of every four dollars reported lost, more than any other payment method. The median individual reported loss? A whopping $2,600. The top cryptocurrencies people said they used to pay scammers were #Bitcoin (70%), #Tether (10%), and #Ether (9%).
#scam #crime #bitcoins #fail #money #finance #blockchain #news #warning
#FirstWorldProblems at their best. And there are still weirdos who believe they will survive the end of the world with #Bitcoins when not even much simpler #technology runs smoothly.
#btc #fail #software #banksters #money #pay #supermarket #trade #economy #problem #security #finance #news
Einmal mehr geraten die EU-Kommission und der Apple-Konzern aneinander. Dieses Mal geht es um das Bezahlsystem Apple Pay. Der Konzern würde den Wettbewerb zugunsten seines eigenen Systems beschränken, sagt Brüssel.#Apple #ApplePay #Wettbewerb #EU #Payment
EU-Kommission wirft Apple Verstoß gegen Wettbewerbsvorschriften vor | DW | 02.05.2022
For those looking into buying the librem.one service. Please notice that if you already have a purism account from buying a Librem line of product. (Librem laptops, phone, key). Hold on. There is a bug in there system assigning payments of your librem.one account to your original account. (If you use the same backup mail address).
Phil Hunt of the Pirate Party UK was kind enough to comment on my Modest Proposal with a link to his own 2009 proposal, "A broadband tax for the UK?". It's a more complete (and well-thought-out) form of the concept addressing music, newspapers, and other media:
Further to my previous post suggesting that the UK isn’t going to institute a “3 strikes” law, there is speculation that the government might instead introduce a broadband tax, where ISPs’ customers will pay and the money going to the music industry to compensate for the loses they’ve suffered through P2P filesharing....
Continued at the dreddit
