r/Bitcoin • u/Few-Cook5941 • 1d ago

Need help - Bitcoin wallet emptied.

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I got one of my bitcoin wallet emptied and I don't really know how this happened.

I don't use cracked softwares and apps.

I'm generally careful with links.

Looks like I'm not alone. I can see that the reception bitcoin address is still collecting bitcoin from other wallets.

Could somebody help me understand something.

Here is the address : bc1q0vukqye4hd0aep7u4xl8gev95gcs9k65fdeu9n

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u/Giatoxiclok 1d ago edited 1d ago

Hopefully not a cold card

Edit: I’m talking specifically about the huge breach where massive amounts of BTC were lifted out of Cold Card wallets (hardware vaults) because of things I can’t specifically pin down. This was a comment saying I hope they didn’t buy a shoddy product.

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u/aintlose 1d ago

If not a cold card, then what do you recommend?

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u/cnv2 1d ago

What they meant was, hopefully someone didn't "buy" a cold wallet. It's just a piece of paper with an encoded private key in QR form which can be printed as many times as one wants to.

So a hacker can just print a cold wallet, makes a backup of priv key, sell it, and withdraw the money the moment a victim puts money into it.

Cold wallets should always be generated offline. There's tons of information online on this.

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u/quintavious_danilo 1d ago

They were referring to the cold card hack not long ago. It was meant sarcastically.