Quote from: cbeast on May 27, 2014, 05:30:05 PM

Quote from: JorgeStolfi on May 27, 2014, 05:26:05 PM

Quote from: Cassius on May 27, 2014, 03:13:36 PM

I remember people saying something similar when something called 'the Internet' started to gain momentary popularity in the late 90s.

Did they? Lots of stupid things were said about the internet back then, but scamming was not as big a problem for the internet as it is in the bitcoin world. Perhaps because it was mostly classical scams (such as chain letters and credit card theft) that the police already knew how to recognize and handle. One big "advantage" of bitcoin is that law and police often cannot even tell whether a crime was committed.

Online dating in the 1990s. How did anyone survive that?

Making sure you dont date a dude named: Loverapingwoman. Or something like that.