IRC Channel #Bitcoin calls Bitcoin.com "scammy"

[BayAreaCoins]

[rogerver]

Do you have any insight as to who is actually making that claim?

Please update us if they have any actual evidence of scamming.

[elux]

"Scammy." LOL.

Quite unlike theymos's bitcointalk.org which has a spotless record of no scams ever, yeah?

Bitcointalk has in fact been the central conduit for the vast majority of Bitcoin-related scams & frauds throughout history.

Which makes this "warning" quite funny.

AFAICT, this forum is scam free for now. Enjoy it while it lasts.

[BayAreaCoins]

Do you have any insight as to who is actually making that claim?

I don't. I just noticed it when I joined the IRC channel the other day.

Please update us if they have any actual evidence of scamming.

Of course!

I think they are being pissy in regards to people being able to promote their service (wallet ect). I'm not sure though.

I'll pass along anything I see.

[fav]

huh. don't see anything scammy on bitcoin.com though...

[BayAreaCoins]

I had a chance to pop into the IRC a bit tonight:

[22:46] <gmaxwell> BayAreaCoins: I don't know the context for the topic update. but it may be because for a while it was an exact clone of bitcoin.org but with people paying to place 'wallets' that had been intentionally excluded from bitcoin.org due to being sketchy and/or having bad security.
[22:46] <gmaxwell> and also having a page that looks like a donate to your favorite wallet thing, but the addresses all go to the bitcoin.com operators.
[22:47] <BayAreaCoins> Makes sense. Strikes me as more "sketchy" than "scammy". Thanks Maxwell
[22:48] <gmaxwell> yea, Agreed, there might be other things I don't know about.
[22:48] <BayAreaCoins> Ya I was wondering if I was missing something. I'm going to look it over again tomorrow though
[22:48] <gmaxwell> At least the page that makes it look like you're donating to wallets but really paying the site might have been what earned the scammy moniker.
[22:48] <BayAreaCoins> if I see anything that looks "scammy" I'll be sure to post it.

[rogerver]

I don't think a single person anywhere in the world was ever confused as to what the bump addresses did.
It is explained clearly on the site, and just a few people have sent coins to bump their favorite services.
I think it is a super nice way to automate dealing with advertisers, and wasn't possible before the invention of bitcoin.

If you haven't seen it already, take a look:
https://www.bitcoin.com/promoted-exchanges


Anyone who is interested in, and supportive of Bitcoin is welcome to help with this forum, or website in general, including those in IRC #Bitcoin.

Please consider this a personal invitation to get involved to help make Bitcoin even better.

[QuantumAGI]

In the future we may be able to open a payment channel to this forum and bump posts by clicking a button...