Be safe out there.
It's also deeply niche, and especially from the outside it's a difficult market to comprehend. Even a little bit on the inside it can be truly baffling as to how value is attained and assigned,and environmental offsets it just doesn't make a lot of sense most of the time. This mysterious complexity combined with tantalising promise cultivated by the rise of bitcoin and you have a perfect storm for scams.
, whether they're being stolen by scammers or made by them. There have been so many get quick rich crypto schemes that have successfully taken advantage of people, and the internet is really cottoning on. According to, fake crypto currency giveaway sites have tripled this year, painting a troubling picture of successful criminals in this space.which found the sites generally target English and Spanish speakers.
The sites are pulling in an average viewer count of about 15,000 each. Of course not all of these people are getting scammed, but even getting those clicks is worrying. There's no way these sites would be so commonplace if they weren't at least somewhat successful. Thanks to how easy they are to set up, and all the tools available to scammers nowadays like deepfakes and rented YouTube accounts, we're seeing three times more of these sites than we did even this time last year.