Hey shout out to the hive community for making us aware of this:
https://peakd.com/hive-121566/@louis88/scam-alert-there-is-no-1000-jst-airdrop-hive-steem-blurt
There isn't really a clear mitigation for this, @guiltyparties reached out to me today and let me know about it and he also let me know that people in the hive community have reached out to cloudflare and the registrar of the domain that this scam is being run from and to make a long story short, it does not seem like it will be taken down.
Therefore, I would just like to recommend that you be careful where you put your keys. Ideally, you would use a service like whale vault which does all of the signing outside of a regular browser session.
Stay safe out there folks, it is not possible for us to prevent every scam or to keep you perfectly safe so it is important that you be mindful of security while using blurt, steem, or hive.
In fact stay mine for security all the time not just when using blurt steem or hive
Thanks for the information, it is good to know that everyone supports each other to keep everyone informed in the different communities.
Good vibes.
Security is pretty much paramount.
I do expect some juststeem or tronsteem token to be launched at some point. When that happens, users should be extra vigilant as a scam pulled at the same time could be even more effective.
I mean a scammy scammer and not... oh never mind ;-)
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oh , thanks for making us alert
Thank you very much for discussing the issue. We should be more careful now. Security is matter of concern.
Thanks for this info. I think it was yesterday when I received a message in Discord that inform me about this JST airdrop.
It looks scammy and I don't care about the airdrop and so I just delete and block the sender :D
Thanks for raising this issue here. We should be more careful
I saw this while browsing @steemhunt
The sad thing is that it looked both like a scam and a project that would get endorsed by Justin Sun on Tron.
Here are two very long articles that can reveal a lot about both STEEM and Tron (along with other Justin Sun projects):
https://decrypt.co/38050/steem-steemit-tron-justin-sun-cryptocurrency-war
https://www.theverge.com/21459906/bittorrent-tron-acquisition-justin-sun-us-china
I don't believe everything I read; but these things mentioned seem very plausible.
I don't even think he would stoop that low, young Justin Sun likes to put a thin veneer respectability on his work.
Notice that I said thin.
Anyhow I've got to be grateful, blurt exists because of him.
That is true. He gave us a reason to take action and show the resilience of blockchain communities.
And there's a lot of resilience that we are going to build, both in blurt and in additional chains in blurt's ecosystem.
The Justin Sun technique will never work again for compromising a blockchain.
Not counting BP powered up less than 30 days ago for witness rankings will be a good step IMHO.
I mentioned @eastmael about few potentials for BLURT. Something like https://opensea.io or https://nftm.art would be an amazing addition to BLURT. I really love the ability to verify things on blockahin. Therefor https://www.po.et and https://ovcode.com would be two of my favorite additions. I'm not a programmer. I don't know how complex these integrations would be.
What I know is that these are incredible use cases and these projects have fallen from the eyes of crypto media during the bear market. I remember https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/poet at Top 100. Now it is at #545. BLURT has one thing these other projects didn't. We have a community that are going to stick around because they are already invested and there are other things they can do like posting or simply earning curation rewards with their BLURT.
I heard that they are phishing by using some clone of SteemConnect.
Can't someone put a clone of Whalevault extension in browser store and trick new users to install it?
By the way, Whalevault doesn't work for Blurt on any frontend on mobile (Kiwi browser). I haven't tried it for Blurt.buzz though.
Thanks for the update and information. Noted for action
Helpful information.
thanks for sharing us..
Thanks for this information. It's always good to stay safe and never to release the keys or just click on any link too.
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