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0 pointsakoboldfrying2y ago0 comments

So what's your theory?

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Had the incorrect wallet in their device's memory, pasted and hit send without triple checking. Rookie error.

Doubtful. Almost any other wallet seems possible, but Satoshi's wallet isn't one that you would randomly have copied moments before making a million dollar transaction.

akoboldfryingOP2y ago

I think even the richest people on earth will take the time to double-check a million-dollar transaction.

For someone to have done this accidentally and not bothered to double-check, it seems to me they would need to have fat-fingered both the address and the amount. This person is typing with hams.

zoklet-enjoyer2y ago

This guy swapped over $600k and didn't check the slippage and lost over $200k on it

https://forum.osmosis.zone/t/refund-dydx-user-funds-lost-fro...

jorvi2y ago

For people with say 10 billion dollars, losing a million is losing 1 / 10 000 of their wealth. It’s as if you have 10 000 dollars in savings and lose 1 dollar in the couch cushions.

Plus that wealth is generating more wealth. Logically, a multi-billionaire wouldn’t care.

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latchkey2y ago

With binance, you have to double check the withdraw address, especially for something large like this. I'm surprised their own processes didn't flag it.

baking2y ago

It was not directly from Binance. It went into an intermediate wallet first.

ur-whale2y ago

> Rookie error.

You're obviously working under the assumption that the sender is someone for whom one more or one less MUSD makes any kind of difference to his everyday life.

mensetmanusman2y ago

bitcoin wallets would not be different by just a single character.

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