Cardano Daily Discussion - April 25, 2023

Hello everyone,

Welcome to the Cardano Daily Discussion!

The standard sub rules apply here (see sidebar), with the exception that price discussion is allowed in this thread, though we encourage you to try not to make this the focus and talk about the project itself. Please ask questions, help others and be civil - be sure to get involved in Project Catalyst too!

If you're new, please make sure you're read through the newbies guide and share it with others (use the ?newbies comment command to reference it).

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⚠️ Scam Warning ⚠️

Please read the Cybersecurity guidelines for Cardano Users.

There are ongoing giveaway scams on youtube and many scammers lurking in Cardano's social channels impersonating ambassadors/moderators/official staff contacting users via direct messages.

For example, searching 'cardano' on youtube and sorting by most recent upload date shows several giveaway scams running (all videos in screenshot are scams):

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Ongoing 'giveaway' scams on Youtube

The youtube scams are automated; use stolen footage usually of Charles Hoskinson and are restreamed so to appear to be 'live'; appear to have many watchers (which are bots); use bought hacked channels and are edited to appear like official channels.

See this post for more examples of what they look like

Do not be fooled!

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To be clear:

• ⚠️ There is no such thing as a Cardano giveaway
• ⚠️ Never share your seed phrase with ANYONE
• ⚠️ Never send ADA to someone promising to send you more ADA back
• ⚠️ You will never be contacted by ambassadors/moderators/staff

Please report scams on the Cardano Fraud Detection Bureau.

⚠️ Scam Warning ⚠️

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Midnight Subreddit

In anticipation of Input Output's new data protection blockchain 'Midnight', I've managed to acquire r/Midnight through some negotiation and repurpose it for the Cardano Community (the sub was created for a card game back in 2011 but was mostly unused).

I decided to do this as I thought the project will eventually need a home on reddit and best to setup now before any scammers do. Obviously there's not much to post about on there right now as it's early days as the project is yet to be released, but if you'd like to be kept up to date on the project please feel free to join the new subreddit if the project interests you and I'll be sure to post updates as and when they become available.

Right now the sub is mostly a carbon copy of r/cardano, I've copied most of the automod and rules over, so certain aspects may seem a little incongruent atm, but I'll tailor and tweak the sub as we go. Feel free to send me or post any input if you want stuff to change.

Cheers all

Tether MarketCap Is $81.4B, Recovering Nearly All of Value Lost Following Terra Incident.

https://cmnnews.live/tether-marketcap-recovering-terra/

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Friend of a friend falls for a tech support scam

Spoke to an old friend the other evening.

A close acquaintance of theirs just very recently got scammed out of tens of thousands of dollars. And, the way I see it, the acquaintance (‘victim’) has little chance of getting that money back. While the subject of age never came up, the conversation leads me to believe the victim is a senior.

The event:

·It all apparently started with a tech support popup on victim’s computer

· Victim calls the number in the popup, and winds up speaking to a scammer at an Indian call center scam operation. Apparently all voices in this scam were Indian sounding.

· Scammer convinces victim to download Teamviewer.

· Scammer takes victim through the whole spiel. 'Hackers are on your computer, are in your bank account, and we must take immediate action.’

· The tech support scammer patches victim through to 'a representative of victim’s bank.' · The 'bank representative' paints a dire activity of what is happening to victim’s bank account, and that the FBI must be brought in immediately as they can save the day.

· The 'bank representative' patches victim through to 'an FBI agent.'

· The 'FBI agent' paints a picture of a dire situation, and tells the victim they must immediately move all their money out of that bank account, and into an FBI account that will immediately secure victim’s money. The 'FBI agent' will step by step help victim accomplish this.

· Oh, and victim must make this account switch deposit in Bitcoin.

· The FBI agent talks victim into going to a local Bitcoin ATM, buying tens of thousands of dollars of Bitcoin, and depositing it into the secure FBI crypto wallet.

And there the money still sits as of the other evening. Out of reach. Unfortunately as is often the case, neither the FBI nor local law enforcement has been able to do anything.

Everyone around the world, please read it once and join me if you have the same thoughts as me.

hello. I am a young man in my 30s living in Korea.

The reason I wrote this is Ukraine. Russia is still at war.

I want to be a big help to Ukraine. I thought about how I can help if the economy is going to collapse a lot.

The way I thought of it was to raise bitcoin little by little and choose a way to support the Ukrainian government.📷
People all over the world, please donate to the Bitcoin address below for development after Ukraine's victory. I wish world peace.

The raised bitcoins can be directly remitted to the Ukrainian government, and we wish everyone who participated in this event good luck and happiness.

Bitcoin address. : 33jCEHhrrJP9ZBRJZ26H9JYxeZiK1vQoMk

If you have difficulty transferring bitcoin, I will write down the Ripple coin address and Desknation Tech below. Thank you.

Ripple Coin Address: raQwCVAJVqjrVm1Nj5SFRcX8i22BhdC9WA
destination tag: 3806374575