Anatomy of a Reddit cryptocurrency spam-factory

[doctorow]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/09/17/fiat-attention-currency.html

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[gracchus]

Libertarian math beanie baby collectors ruin everything.

[kingannoy]

Seems like a professional pump and dump operation.

[Boundegar]

One product includes a blockchain-based ride sharing service, while at least one of the accounts appears to be focused on the Ethereum subreddit.

…the Aristocrats!

[NovaeDeArx]

I’m trying to imagine reading that with my 15-years-ago brain and it’s just gibberish. What a strange world.

[ax11]

I know the feeling. Things went suprisingly better after my 18th birthday.

I just could not resist.

[sockdoll]

I’ve encountered these guys or people just like them on some of the numismatic-related subreddits. If you ban them outright they just come back using different accounts.