Quote from: DeathAndTaxes on December 03, 2012, 11:12:52 PM

Quote from: bitcoinbear on December 03, 2012, 02:30:23 PM

Quote from: thebaron on December 01, 2012, 02:02:31 PM

I don't think this kind of "HAHA I STOLE YOUR COINS AND BLAMED THE GOVERNMENT FOR IT" stuff is going to stop until someone gets the shit beat out of them.

How would that help? The people who have not been assaulted will still try to rip you off, and the one who you assaulted already ripped you off, they wouldn't be doing it a second time anyway.

Not that I advocate vigilante violence but there is a reason why Bitcoiners gets robbed more often then say a Mexican Drug Cartel. Psst it has nothing to do with drugs.

Simple version is Bitcoin is a target rich environment. You have the scammers fantasy of
a) people with money (or value).
b) people who are amazingly dimwitted (lets hand a guy named "Pirate" $5M in irreversible currency in a "super secret" business plan which exactly resembles but obviously for super secret reasons isn't a ponzi).
c) people who will do absolutely nothing when robbed.

To pull off a scam you have to have mark (see point b above), who has something worth stealing (see point a above), and you have to get away with it (see point c above). The scammer trifecta. Bitcoin will continue to attract bolder and bolder scammers, conmen, ponzi operators, and hucksters until a, b, or c are no longer true (or less true).

nailed it!