Developer posts secret key on GitHub, loses $40K in 2 minutes.
A Web3 developer has shared the sad story of losing money after accidentally making his wallet keys publicly available on the developer forum GitHub.
On June 5, Brian Guan, the sole founder of the Web3 streaming app, shared a post on X saying he lost $40,000 after making a repository public on GitHub. The developer said he forgot the secret keys were in the vault.
When a community member asked how long it took to withdraw the money, the Web3 founder replied that it only took a person two minutes to withdraw the money.
Cointelegraph has reached out to Guan for comments but has yet to receive a response.
Crypto community sentiment is divided
When Guan's post went viral on X, the reaction from the crypto community was mixed. Some members expressed sympathy and support for the developer, while others found Guan's comments about developers writing code for OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT.
One community member related the experience and said they hoped Guan would return. However, other members of the community were less charitable.
In the year In 2023, Guan released his opinion on smart contract engineers. According to Guan, projects that cost smart contract engineers $200,000 are “ngmi,” which is short for “fail.” Any robust developer should be able to “write robustness with the help of ChatGPT,” says Web3's founder.
As a result, community member Fubar posted Guan's previous post saying that if someone pays $200 for a hardware wallet, they can't do it and developers should be able to store private keys in GitHub with help. ChatGPT
Meanwhile, while another user apologized for what happened, Guan's comment on the developers earned him “Gen Z rights” again.
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Digital artist Rhett Mankind created memecoin in April 2023 using ChatGipt. He used suggestions to guide ChatGPT to create what Human has dubbed the “next great” memecoin.
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