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Developer posts secret key on GitHub, loses $40K in 2 minutes
(cointelegraph.com)
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this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2024
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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.
You're not wrong about how important those keys are and how he definitely should have known better. But I at least have a little sympathy for the guy. Everyone makes mistakes from time to time, even with important stuff. Hopefully they are lucky enough not to lose 40k on one but unfortunately he wasn't. Whether he should have known better or not, that just plain sucks.
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.
If that doesn't make everyone lose 100% trust in coins that do that, I don't know what will.
Ethereum, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum_Classic#The_DAO_bailout
That's insane that this really happened.