September 17, 2018 08:08 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/JDyi4v6jgOA/fiat-attention-currency.html
Anatomy of a Reddit cryptocurrency spam-factory
A guy named "Aaron" has been pitching Reddit moderators and other influential Redditors on their participation in a lucrative scam to inflate the popularity of posts about different cryptocurrencies, using massive farms of bots that post and upvote through a network of proxies that make them seem like they're distributed all over the world. (more…)
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/JDyi4v6jgOA/fiat-attention-currency.html
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