Topic: More bad publicity - pay us a million in btc or we spread Ebola (Read 5220 times)
There is no such thing as bad publicity. Bad publicity is still a publicity.
October 31, 2014, 08:24:34 PM
No such thing as bad publicity but..
a/ its fake
b/ just some hype to label bitcoin as useless in the media's eyes again
(like with silk road)
a/ its fake
b/ just some hype to label bitcoin as useless in the media's eyes again
(like with silk road) October 31, 2014, 07:24:40 PM
October 31, 2014, 05:42:31 PM
peoples mind set is actually changing right now, alot of people dont think of bitcoin as a scam currency, but as "another currency".. so when news talks about bitcoin being used, the mindset is not "oh crap bitcoin is bad" but more like "oh the scammers dont want to use a credit card, cash or paypal"
there was yet another use of bitcoin on the TV show 'the goodwife' this year where the blackmailer tool that encrypts hard drives was the centre of attention and the payment method was bitcoin.. the emphasis was on the scam not bitcoin. bitcoin was just a side mention, treated as just a useful payment method.. there was no chatter about bitcoin being bad, no chatter about bitcoin being hard to purchase or even any chatter about risks of bitcoin.. the characters simply paid the amount and then argued for half the episode about the scammers
It could go both ways. Some people will get the message:
"If the blackmailers are willing to risk jail, or even infect and kill a bunch of people just to get bitcoins - the bitcoin must be worthwhile"
But there's probably other group, those who only watch the headlines, and they may get something like:
"ebola=bitcoin=panic=terrorism"
Personally I don't see a problem with that sort of publicity. As long as media don't twist the story into "terrorists demand ebola, or they'll release bitcoin" - it's all good.
October 31, 2014, 05:42:03 PM
This is called extortion inoculation. BS enough times and nobody will pay BTC to any extortionist.
Actually, I see it as a business model: Pretend to be an extortionist and get paid via BTC to cease whatever via paying yourself, then pretend to purchase miners from BFL and have the fiat in your bank within two days via BitPay. Fuckin' genius, if you ask me.
LOL. So who wants to send a massive TX to themself and bc.i tag it "ebola ransom payment"?
Sonny Vleisides comes to mind.
October 31, 2014, 05:16:13 PM
This is called extortion inoculation. BS enough times and nobody will pay BTC to any extortionist.
Actually, I see it as a business model: Pretend to be an extortionist and get paid via BTC to cease whatever via paying yourself, then pretend to purchase miners from BFL and have the fiat in your bank within two days via BitPay. Fuckin' genius, if you ask me.
LOL. So who wants to send a massive TX to themself and bc.i tag it "ebola ransom payment"?
October 31, 2014, 04:36:26 PM
This is ridiculous.... 
October 31, 2014, 04:33:08 PM
This is called extortion inoculation. BS enough times and nobody will pay BTC to any extortionist.
That's a weird form of extortion if there is one
Viral warfare ransom
October 31, 2014, 09:53:03 AM
It doesn't matter what currency they use, they are blackmailers. They just think that this would be a safe way to get paid and run away when in reality those btc would be tagged and no one would want to touch them again.
October 31, 2014, 08:37:46 AM
Doubt this will be the last time people try to extort bitcoins outta people like this.
Ugh, don't give the alt coin devs any ideas
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it seems the time is come for ebola coin ! 
Ugh, don't give the alt coin devs any ideas
.There has already been multiple threads about it, there was a Scrypt Ebolacoin and a few joke threads.
Here is an article about donations for Bitcoin to Sierra Leone to help fund aid workers http://www.coindesk.com/sierra-leone-group-diverts-bitcoin-campaign-fight-ebola/
There are other options as well, the Bitcoin miners could choose to exclude those transactions from the Blockchain as well.
October 31, 2014, 08:19:35 AM
Doubt this will be the last time people try to extort bitcoins outta people like this.
Ugh, don't give the alt coin devs any ideas.
it seems the time is come for ebola coin !
Ugh, don't give the alt coin devs any ideas
. October 31, 2014, 08:10:07 AM
it seems the time is come for ebola coin !
October 31, 2014, 03:21:28 AM
This is called extortion inoculation. BS enough times and nobody will pay BTC to any extortionist.
Actually, I see it as a business model: Pretend to be an extortionist and get paid via BTC to cease whatever via paying yourself, then pretend to purchase miners from BFL and have the fiat in your bank within two days via BitPay. Fuckin' genius, if you ask me.
October 31, 2014, 03:11:30 AM
Not necessarily bad...just a misconception that fools will not believe into...research is key.
Yeah.. But bad publicity or not, its still publicity. Still a + for bitcoin.
I would not however say that asking for a randsome in bitcoin to be negative for bitcoin. I would say the reason they are asking for this is to avoid direct contact with law enforcement when they go to collect the randsom (instead of having to physically pick up cash).
October 31, 2014, 03:05:49 AM
If they took the ransom in FIAT, would it also be bad news for FIAT?
October 31, 2014, 01:52:20 AM
Not necessarily bad...just a misconception that fools will not believe into...research is key.
Yeah.. But bad publicity or not, its still publicity. Still a + for bitcoin.
I would not however say that asking for a randsome in bitcoin to be negative for bitcoin. I would say the reason they are asking for this is to avoid direct contact with law enforcement when they go to collect the randsom (instead of having to physically pick up cash).
October 30, 2014, 10:43:28 PM
Not cool, why do people feel the need to spread hate?
October 29, 2014, 01:40:37 AM
if those fkn idiots would demand dollars, would this be bad publicity for the dollar?
tens of thousands of years of violence and genocide and war crimes and all this sheit were managed without bitcoin.
tens of thousands of years of violence and genocide and war crimes and all this sheit were managed without bitcoin.
peoples mind set is actually changing right now, alot of people dont think of bitcoin as a scam currency, but as "another currency".. so when news talks about bitcoin being used, the mindset is not "oh crap bitcoin is bad" but more like "oh the scammers dont want to use a credit card, cash or paypal"
there was yet another use of bitcoin on the TV show 'the goodwife' this year where the blackmailer tool that encrypts hard drives was the centre of attention and the payment method was bitcoin.. the emphasis was on the scam not bitcoin. bitcoin was just a side mention, treated as just a useful payment method.. there was no chatter about bitcoin being bad, no chatter about bitcoin being hard to purchase or even any chatter about risks of bitcoin.. the characters simply paid the amount and then argued for half the episode about the scammers
October 29, 2014, 01:23:57 AM
Not necessarily bad...just a misconception that fools will not believe into...research is key.
Yeah.. But bad publicity or not, its still publicity. Still a + for bitcoin.
October 29, 2014, 12:55:21 AM
https://cryptothrift.com/auctions/healing-products/msa-millennium-face-gas-ebola-mask-w3m-filter/
bitcoin user notaffected infected
bitcoin user not
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