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Bitcoin News & Updates / Re: Trader Loses $68M of Wrapped Bitcoin in Address Poisoning Scam
« on: May 08, 2024, 04:24:52 PM »
Such cases only prove that people who have a lot of money are not necessarily intelligent - because losing money in such a trivial way would be really shameful for me personally. Without going into the details of the case, if I had tens of millions of dollars worth of coins and if I were to do such an extremely valuable transaction, I would check everything at least ten times - not to mention that the use of a hardware wallet would be mandatory.
The hardware wallet allows us to check whether the address in the interface is identical to the one that came from our device, which means that something like this can never happen to us. I would say that people learn best from their own mistakes, even though this one would be extremely expensive - although there is a suspicion that the story was made up so that the owner could avoid paying taxes - and it is not the first time that people have pretended that they were hacked, and in fact they just transferred coins to another address that is still in their possession.
The hardware wallet allows us to check whether the address in the interface is identical to the one that came from our device, which means that something like this can never happen to us. I would say that people learn best from their own mistakes, even though this one would be extremely expensive - although there is a suspicion that the story was made up so that the owner could avoid paying taxes - and it is not the first time that people have pretended that they were hacked, and in fact they just transferred coins to another address that is still in their possession.