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🔞🔞 Early crypto wasn’t hacked by code, it was hacked by reality. One small error, a multi-billion dollar lesson 📢
25,000 BTC vanished because of basic OPSEC mistakes — unencrypted wallet, leaked credentials, copied keys ⚡️
a single user loses everything overnight
- 25,000 BTC disappear
- around $500,000 at the time
- over $2.4 billion at today’s prices
the victim ⚡️
a Bitcointalk user known as “Allinvain” one of the earliest miners in Bitcoin
the theft happens on June 13, 2011 👀
the main transaction:
- hundreds of UTXOs consolidated
- the entire wallet drained at once
how it happened:
- Slush Pool account was compromised
- payout address changed
- credentials already leaked
then the real mistake ⬇️
- wallet.dat stored unencrypted
- running on Windows
- mining software from multiple sources ⚡️
the private keys were literally copied and 25,000 BTC moved in seconds ⚡️
hours later, the post appears on Bitcointalk 😱
allinvain wakes up and his balance is zero ↔️
what followed 😱
- more BTC sent to the same address
- total received: 25,033 BTC
- funds slowly split and moved
today 🤔
- almost everything spent
- only 0.004 BTC remains 😱
🚸 Warning 🚸 I do not provide financial advice 🔞The intent of this content is for you to be aware of market conditions before starting to invest 👌Thank you for reading 👌