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Since you like to downvote my bot who is warning users about the dangers of short links and their use in an ongoing phishing attack I will personally be commenting on your posts.  Anyone upvoting this guy ask yourself why he doesn't want people to know short links could be dangers.  Also ask yourself why he would attack a bot that is warning people of these dangers.  Really don't know why people are upvoting this copy/paste youtube crap in the first place.  

**To the readers of the post:**  Short links are provided by [url shortening](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_shortening) services.  The short links they provide can be useful in some cases.  Generally their use is benign.  But as with all useful tools there are dangers.  Short links can be used to hide all sorts of things.  Quite frequently they are used to hide referral links for instance.  While not dangerous this can be deceptive.  They can also be used to hide dangerous links such as links to phishing sites, sites loaded with malware, scam sites, etc.  You should always be extremely cautious before clicking on one.  If you don't know and trust the poster don't click.  Even if you do you should still be cautious and wary of any site you are sent to. It's always better to visit the site directly and not through a short link.  

**To the author of the post:**  While short links may be useful on some sites they are not needed on steemit.  You can use markdown to format your links such as this link to [steemit](https://steemit.com).  It's as simple as `[steemit](https://steemit.com)`  Unlike short links this allows the reader to see where they are going by simply hovering over the link before they click on it.

Thanks for the Slock.it video. Great stuff. I'm sure there will be a lot of devices similar to this coming out soon.

what's slock.it going to do when someone hacks the microwave and drains the eth?? hehe.

Jeez, forget the haters.  For every hater, there are 99 fans.  You don't have time or bandwidth for that negativity as you become more successful in this space. You're diversified, and they're obviously not, while terrified of their precious BTC core being at risk.  Let them wallow in their self-induced paranoia, fear, tin foil and seclusion.

Before I saw this tonight, I was telling my friend who I got to buy some ETH (who then got his brother to buy ETH) that he needs to start watching your vlogs because you aren't a sellout and keep a genuine message throughout.  So take that as a compliment to cap the night off with instead of any hate.