Quote from: DaveF on June 07, 2023, 04:24:53 PM

Quote from: LoyceV on June 07, 2023, 11:25:47 AM

Second problem: the buyer won't understand how to use this private key, and thus can't easily verify it belongs to that address. Considering OP's history on this forum, I don't think he created this on his own. Which means that whoever created it spread it already. This address is mentioned on Reddit in a 2 years old post, but it doesn't add anything. I'm curious what's the story behind this.

Either a massive screwup / typo when doing something OR exactly what I said, invest BTC0.5 to get BTC2.0 as you sell it for BTC0.01 to 200 people.
I'll keep saying it, never underestimate greed and stupidity.

How many obvious scams do we see here day in and day out.
Add to that telegram and what's app and everything else I can easily see getting a couple of hundred people to pay.

-Dave

Guess whoever it is sold it again to someone else.
Greed will always be able to manipulate others who think they know better and can get around programming that is designed not to allow things to be gotten around.

I'm guessing wit this it's a bit of several things actually FOMO / lack of understanding / thinking they are smarter then everyone else (ego) / greed.

Going to keep happening. Just saw it on a car board where someone was 'selling' a warehouse of old parts. Yes it was a warehouse of old (early 1980s) car parts.
Everyone of them a cheap cheap cheap knockoff. But since they did not know and just googled the part numbers....

-Dave