Top Bitcoin dev gets owned

Re:Top Bitcoin dev gets owned by wereallterrrist on Sunday January 01, 2023 @04:29PM (#34211148)

This all stinks. Between the bio, the vague tweets about server hacks (implying Intel ME or a physical server compromise is at fault, really?), the vague tweets about this situation... Something fishy is going on or wow, really proof that sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time because wow dude does not have the first clue about security. Hot wallet, compromised, unrotated servers, come on.

"My colo'd server that stores my hot wallet keeps getting compromised. <days later> Welp the wallet is emptied".

I don't know how to take this seriously?

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Re:Top Bitcoin dev gets owned by nemo44x on Sunday January 01, 2023 @04:49PM (#34211354)

Luke Jr is rather famous in the crypto world and has been for over 10 years. This isn’t a rando posting something.

It could be his Twitter has been hacked? We don’t know the whole story.

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Re:Top Bitcoin dev gets owned by nibbleshifter on Sunday January 01, 2023 @04:53PM (#34211394)

The mans a halfwit, basically.

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Re:Top Bitcoin dev gets owned by shortcake27 on Sunday January 01, 2023 @04:55PM (#34211413)

I’m struggling to understand it. I hate crypto but I thought the ease of spinning up new wallets was a benefit. With that amount of money and the knowledge I was being targeted, I’d have hundreds of cold and hot wallets to distribute the attack surface. Perhaps I’m misunderstanding crypto or the situation.

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Re:Top Bitcoin dev gets owned by turtleman1338 on Monday January 02, 2023 @12:51PM (#34221068)

Not to defend Luke but I nowhere read that he stored wallets on the hacked server and I think he explicitly stated that the server was not used for wallets.

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