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Quote from: electronicash on December 23, 2021, 01:14:52 PM

if this is about you having a video jerking in front of a phone then just ignore it.

Also: put a sticker on your camera. Even better if you disable the microphone for privacy too, but that's difficult on phones.

Quote from: [email protected] on December 23, 2021, 01:07:59 PM

If I'm being blackmailed by somebody who asks me to buy bitcoin and pay it to their account why can I not report this to bitcoin?

If the blackmailers would ask for dollars, would you report this to dollar?

For what it's worth: if it's the standard spam, it's not really blackmail, it's just spam. Ignore it, reporting it to the police isn't going to help you either. Unless it's something personal, but that's not likely.

I'm curious: OP's username looks like they're just using Bitcointalk for spam. Or they're dumb enough to get more spam on their real email address.

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Quote from: [email protected] on December 23, 2021, 01:07:59 PM

If I'm being blackmailed by somebody who asks me to buy bitcoin and pay it to their account why can I not report this to bitcoin?

The same reason why you cannot report it to Mr Dollar or Mr Yen. If you want - go to police.
But first check what is the reason. In case it is encrypted disk - you may try to recover it on your own. Aha- and if you really want to pay, at least try to negotiate the price.

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Bitcoin is not a company, there’s no one person who controls it. That’s the whole point of it, decentralized payments. Bitcoin is asked for in blackmail / ransom scenarios because it’s difficult to track and it can’t be “charged back” after sending it like credit and debit cards can. Depending on what type of blackmail is going on you’re probably better off ignoring it or reporting to authorities. Keep in mind many fake phishing emails try and extort people for bitcoin, often stuff like “here is your email and password, we have video from your web-cam masterbating to porn, and if you don’t pay us in bitcoin we will release it online”..crap like that is just bs.

electronicash

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if this is about you having a video jerking in front of a phone then just ignore it. there had been lots of people receiving those emails they may have even cc on it or sent to many.

why you can't report it to bitcoin? not sure what you mean by that but there is no one to report to. but tell you when you send some BTC to his wallet, you will probably receive back a meme image of the gigolo of the family guy.

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Quote from: [email protected] on December 23, 2021, 01:07:59 PM

If I'm being blackmailed by somebody who asks me to buy bitcoin and pay it to their account why can I not report this to bitcoin?

Because Bitcoin is not a company, nor a company's product.
Bitcoin is decentralized, it has no CEO and so on.

Bitcoin is a decentralized form of money. And since it's money, you should report the blackmail to ... the police.

[email protected]

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If I'm being blackmailed by somebody who asks me to buy bitcoin and pay it to their account why can I not report this to bitcoin?

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