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Developer posts secret key on GitHub, loses $40K in 2 minutes (cointelegraph.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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  • Web3 developer Brian Guan lost $40,000 after accidentally posting his wallet's secret keys publicly on GitHub, with the funds being drained in just two minutes.
  • The crypto community's reactions were mixed, with some offering support and others mocking Guan's previous comments about developers using AI tools like ChatGPT for coding.
  • This incident highlights ongoing debates about security practices and the role of AI in software development within the crypto community.
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[–] dhork 124 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I have no sympathy for him, if he is a crypto developer he knows how important those private keys are. And he also knows people scrape public areas all the time looking for keys just like that. The whole point of crypto is to be immutable, so that money is simply lost to him now.

He seems to know how much of a dumb mistake that was, although his description of himself was a bit more colorful.

[–] CallMeButtLove 12 points 5 months ago

You're not wrong about how important those keys are and how he definitely should have known better. But I at least have a little sympathy for the guy. Everyone makes mistakes from time to time, even with important stuff. Hopefully they are lucky enough not to lose 40k on one but unfortunately he wasn't. Whether he should have known better or not, that just plain sucks.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The whole point of crypto is to be immutable, so that money is simply lost to him now.

IIRC there are several cases where some group of people lost big enough coins and force most of the miners to fork to get their money back. Not bitcoin though.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

If that doesn't make everyone lose 100% trust in coins that do that, I don't know what will.