• Another Twitter scam: No, Elon Musk is not giving away Bitcoin

    Posted on November 5, 2018 at 08:03 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    Looks like the @PantheonBooks account was compromised. Pantheon Books is a biggie, a division of Random House, with 70,000 followers.

    Goes to show how much you should trust the “verified” blue tick mark — and the first dozen or so responses to the post, all from verified accounts, all saying they’d received Bitcoin.

    See Oliver Hough’s follow-up

    And Kevin Beaumont’s analysis.

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