Polish Central Bank Paid Online Trolls to Smear Cryptocurrency

[Mark Mason]

Polish Central Bank Paid Online Trolls to Smear Cryptocurrency

The National Bank of Poland paid a Polish YouTuber, Marcin Dubiel, around $30,000 USD to speak negatively of cryptocurrency and favorably of Polish fiat currency.

The video, titled “I lost all my money,” shows Dubiel losing all his money to the point where he could not pay for a dinner date. His date had to pay in fiat, which eventually lead to the couple’s breakup. The video takes an extremely biased view, “portraying Dubiel as a victim of an evil mastermind who counts the cash Dubiel lost” due to a get rich quick scheme that left him penniless and lonely. The video also includes the hashtag #uważajnakryptowaluty, which points to a website funded by the Polish Central Bank that describes crypto as “risky, having no guarantee, and not classified as electronic money.”

Read more: https://www.dashforcenews.com/polish-central-bank-paid-online-trolls-to-smear-cryptocurrency/

 

[solarguy]

I am SHOCKED I say.

As the legacy banking system (correctly) perceives that cryptocurrency and Dash pose a very legitimate threat to their business model, it is a virtual certainty that they will attempt to throw a wrench into the works to slow us down. And among other techniques, that will almost certainly include social engineering/paid trolls on public forums. We need to think about effective methods to counteract those social engineering attacks.