Crypto doesn't exactly have the best public image and it has only been getting worse this week, as YouTube channels appear to have been hijacked by scammers making crypto price 'predictions' and setting fans up for further scams. It's a mess that seems to have caught an unfortunate amount of people.
As reported on by Ars Technica, a handful of YouTubers in the fighting game community have been hacked, deleting all previous videos and replacing them with a livestream impersonating Ripple, a blockchain payment company. The livestreams in question are making predictions on cryptocurrency and using the platform of that Youtuber (with all its subscribers) to encourage people to send money to their crypto wallet.
