Bitcoin veteran tricks crypto scammer into learning Lightning

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Have you thought how satisfying it must be to scam a crypto scammer? Veteran Bitcoiner fixone has had some fun lately.

In terms of pursuing and maybe catching the miscreant, Crisan said that “if the scammer opened a channel with this node, then it would be possible. But there are also services that offer sort of on-demand channel creation, so that’s not a very reliable method.” However, ultimately, “only the node operator would be able to do this enhanced tracing.”

It’s not Crisan’s first time playing tricks on scammers. In 2019, he outsmarted a Bitcoin illiterate scammer into sending 21 million Bitcoin to their address. Bitcoin has a hard cap of 21 million Bitcoin, so the scammer clearly needs to do some homework. 1/ I spent some time today trolling a scammer. At one point I was"ready" to send him 21mil BTC to"trade". He was being considerate, though, only wanting 100k

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