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The $GREED Experiment: From a joke tweet to the top of Twitter Trending

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If someone trying to make a joke can accidentally get this much access and engagement, imagine how well the scammers must be doing.

Cryptocurrency scams must be an incredibly lucrative space, and now we know why there's so much spam about it that plenty leaks out into visibility.

I was wondering myself if crypto is just the 'the one thing we all need to learn ourselfs garbage '.

Like when I was 14 I called at a tv gamble Show were the clues were extremely easy but the solutions were extreme hard.

I probably wasted 30€ from my parents.

Did crypto catch so many people for the first time?

Or have they done other stupid things like MLM, homeopathy, Tourist traps, fake calls, fake family members, etc?

Buddy, no offense, but I don't really understand what you're saying here (assuming it's lost in translation).

Are you saying that maybe crypto itself is a big scam and everyone is eventually going to learn that the hard way?

Im trying to say that potentially everyone needs to learn getting scammed to learn it.

One person might experience something as a young age and others later.

My assumption is now that crypto is in such a good place (money, rich, tech) that it finds so many people.

Yes crypto is good in scamming

I personally learned by paying attention. And seeing others get scammed.

Can somebody less online summarize? This is illegible.

somebody made a shitcoin that required twitter write permissions in order to mint and 40k people (or accounts, at least) gave it to him. the end.

More impactful, they also signed their wallets over to him.

What does this mean?

As I understand it from reading the article, they can take all of your coins.

People gave full access to their twitter account & crypto wallet because they thought they would receive a brand new crypto money that could potentially make them rich. There was never any money to get, it was an experiment to see how many people would do stupid thing they don't understand to get money (there was never any money)

Pretty cool project but something about the casual way the writer just wrote about manipulating and bullying his friends into doing free labor for him sorta struck me a bit wrong. It's really easy to take your friends for granted or to bulldoze them socially, and it's really easy for someone who's not so much the leader of a friend group to subconsciously feel like they need to go along with the charismatic plan-maker to stay on their good side and continue to be invited to group hangs.

Not saying at all that that's what is happening here, but it just reminded me of some situations in my life like that (where I was the leader of a friend group and didn't treat everyone who depended on me as well as I should have, as well as the opposite scenario where I felt like I was trying to people-please the popular person in a group).

I guess my takeaway is, I hope the writer also asks their friends what they feel like doing sometimes and goes along with their plans instead of just dropping their own plans into their laps.

That's really far fetched from my point of view.

I saw it more as a fun thing we're people like to be involved.

It wasn't about money

Are we sure this really was a joke gone wrong / social experiment, or is this someone walking back a scam? Or maybe a bit of both?

A scam where you pay $800 to execute it, get no money and the tokens are permanently frozen is the least effective scam of all time.

Greed is why I think our economy will experience another depression and paradoxically also why it hasn't. Greed will catch up with us gradually and then all at once...

Also, don't miss the other two posts he wrote about this:

https://voshy.medium.com/the-greed-experiment-subjects-state...

https://voshy.medium.com/the-greed-experiment-security-and-p...

In the future, everyone will be on the top of Twitter-trending for 15 minutes?

boring twitterkids bulls

The Twitter of it all is not really the point

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