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moralestapia
Dangerous game to play.

People get unalived for way less than this.

pants2
It's unbelievable to me that someone managed to accumulate that much Bitcoin but fall for the most basic scam in the book. This makes me sad.
renewiltord
Me, transferring my fund’s money somewhere and claiming it got stolen: oh yes, boss, they deepfaked you on video and said Do Kwon was coming to put hardware wallet in my bum; I had to give it to them
pants2
Was this fund money? Do we know who's wallet it was?
arcastroe
> Around $700,000 of the stolen assets were frozen thanks to intervention by a security firm called ZeroShadow

This represents only a small portion of the stolen funds. But my understanding was that the holder of the keys owns the crypto. How can the funds get frozen?

gaanbal
is there a market to secure the crypto of rich but stupid people like this? all I have to do is not share the seed phrase, no brainer
pants2
Yes, custodians like Anchorage or Fireblocks are the main ones.