Meanwhile, Crypto.com has suspended activities because they were hacked and somebody made off with some ETH.
"I messaged yah guys hours ago about my
account having 4.28ETH stolen out of nowhere and I’m also wondering how
they got passed the 2FA?” Baller wrote in the tweet.
I saw this on Hacker News a day or so ago. I just laughed because all the "pros" of the platform just got tossed out the window with that hack.
How many times have we seen game accounts get "hacked" (or compromised for whatever reasons). Well, there goes all your crypto. That's why "Ethereum" originally made the hard from from what is not called "Ethereum Classic" because once a token is moved to another wallet there isn't anything anyone can do, but a hard fork, to return it. It's just lost and gone. The same will be true for people who have their NFTs scammed or stolen. They can't be returned.
Ethereum was never hacked... A DAO smart contract was hacked back in 2016. The distinction must be made. The ETC hard fork happened because some wanted to give it back, and other said no. The ETC side said no. In hindsight they were correct, yet and still ETC has all but failed.
When it comes to personal wallets, you wouldn't give your bank account number to a random someone would you? How about your credit card number? Unfortunately people do. Thus the billions in fraud every year. Same goes for your personal wallet. There are no hacks of personal crypto wallets. One way or the other someone gives out there keys.
What I'm saying is this entire system is rife for social and technical exploitation with little recourse for victims. When I give my credit card or bank account number to a service I am protected from fraud by the issuing organization. I make sure my accounts are protected in this way. There are no such protections for users of crypto games.
Idk man things are wild out here. very different. I can list 10 reason why, and even after this, I'd still have trouble believing those 10 reasons. Make of it what you will.
Meh, banks occasionally send funds incorrectly to people who almost always return them in full, just recently a local woman went to an ATM and found an unexpected $999K in her account.
She spent all weekend trying to contact her financial institution to rectify the error but couldn't find any humans available to report it to.
She was even afraid to take out the $40 she originally went there for in the first place...
Me, probably would have been researching countries who don't extradite.
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She spent all weekend trying to contact her financial institution to rectify the error but couldn't find any humans available to report it to.
She was even afraid to take out the $40 she originally went there for in the first place...
Me, probably would have been researching countries who don't extradite.
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Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
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"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon