Tattie (@Tattie@eldritch.cafe)

22h

@fraggle @cmconseils So, what's the controversy of using QR codes?

20h

@collectifission @fraggle @cmconseils Unusable without a smartphone.

16h

@OchotonidKnight and also you're asking people to open a random URL in their own device that goes who knows where and does who knows what.
(And a hacker could stick their own QR code sticker over the top reasonably easily...)
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14h

@Tattie @OchotonidKnight @collectifission @cmconseils reminds me of one of the funniest cryptocurrency stories I ever read

So, the family and I were looking for a place to eat on Saturday night and we noticed the local steak house. We don't have a lot of cash but I do have some savings in Bitcoin so we decided to eat here.

The steak house had a sign in the front window "Bitcoin accepted here", so we walked in, were sat at a table, ordered our food, then when it came time to pay up, all went wrong. I informed our waitress that I'll be paying via Bitcoin and she said sure, just meet her up at the front till while she gets the manager to help with the transaction because she didn't know how. Anyway, the manager rings up the bill and converts it to BTC. He points to the QR code on the front of the register and says "send your payment to this wallet". I did. We waited for the transaction to show on blockchain but it never did. We waited about a half hour and then I noticed something weird. I noticed on the QR code that there was another QR code underneath of it. I informed the manager and we both come to the realization that someone has put their own QR code over top his with double sided tape. FUCK.

So the manager tells me to repay to the correct QR code and I said no, this is your fault. We argued and eventually the police were called and they didn't really know how to handle the situation. One of the officers even said "why didn't you just pay with real money?" and I almost lost it. In the end we agreed that I'd pay half the bill and the manager would take a hit on the other half

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