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Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: $490K Swindle

popey.com Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: $490K Swindle

Edit: There’s a short follow-up to this post: Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: Follow up. tl;dr: A Bitcoin investor was recently scammed out of 9 Bitcoin (worth around $490K) in a fake “Exodus wallet” desktop application for Linux, published in the Canonical Snap Store. This isn’t the first time, and if nothi...

I am not a member of the Anti-Snap crowd (although of course the server sources should be open source), but there is obviously a lot to improve. Flathub/Flatpak should also take note!

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Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: $490k swindle

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  • I don't recommend downloading from unofficial distrobution channels without verifying a hash. That said, why doesn't Exodus give Linux users a PPA? Mac and Windows both have auto updates for the Exodus wallet.

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