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Developer posts secret key on GitHub, loses $40K in 2 minutes
(cointelegraph.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I have no sympathy for him, if he is a crypto developer he knows how important those private keys are. And he also knows people scrape public areas all the time looking for keys just like that. The whole point of crypto is to be immutable, so that money is simply lost to him now.
He seems to know how much of a dumb mistake that was, although his description of himself was a bit more colorful.
IIRC there are several cases where some group of people lost big enough coins and force most of the miners to fork to get their money back. Not bitcoin though.
Ethereum, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum_Classic#The_DAO_bailout
That's insane that this really happened.