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		celticninja on July 15, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in si... It's also validates the scam for other users. When they see BTC being sent they are more likely to think it is genuine. I can see sending dust to track the coins but other than that it's a damn foolish idea.

epanchin on July 15, 2020 | [–]

I imagine there’s only a small overlap between users that know how to track transactions, and those that would fall for this.

SkyBelow on July 16, 2020 | | [–]

I'm actually kind of interested in exactly what sort of overlap that would be.

MattGaiser on July 15, 2020 | [–]

You can't stop stupid.

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