Wow, very sad to hear what happened to you, OP.
I don't beleive that you are a malicious actor and tried to scam someone.
I'll hope for DT to react in a moderate manner and don't destroy your account. We won't gain an advantage if DT does so.
The most beneficial way: next time, you should give the campaign money to a trusted escrow and the trusted escrow should handle payments.
By doing so, you could increase your reputation again.
Since hacks are always responsible for speculations and hot takes, a few people here have wrongfully blamed Electrum to be insecure.
It's just wrong!
Electrum isn't insecure as it's open source and one of the most famous Bitcoin wallets. Open source and famous means, coders dedicated to Blockchain will review it frequently.
As always let's locate the problem: the person in front of the screen.
It might be unfortunate but somewhere you might have screwed up. We don't know where, it could be due to a download from a wrong site, you might have downloaded another app infecting your device, let your device open and someone got access to it or something else.
But not because Electrum is insecure.
tl;dr: blaming Electrum to be insecure because you got hacked is like blaming Bitcoin to be insecure because you've lost your private key. It's BULLSHIT.
thanks for coming to my TED talk.
But one question:
Why so much funds were held on your wallet? 5k USD are a lot of money, enough for several weeks of payouts?
Normally, allocations are much smaller, lasting for around 4 weeks, not more?
Or am I just having a wrong impression?
I'm not Bounty Manager of course.
Best wishes for your recovery.
I don't beleive that you are a malicious actor and tried to scam someone.
I'll hope for DT to react in a moderate manner and don't destroy your account. We won't gain an advantage if DT does so.
The most beneficial way: next time, you should give the campaign money to a trusted escrow and the trusted escrow should handle payments.
By doing so, you could increase your reputation again.
Since hacks are always responsible for speculations and hot takes, a few people here have wrongfully blamed Electrum to be insecure.
It's just wrong!
Electrum isn't insecure as it's open source and one of the most famous Bitcoin wallets. Open source and famous means, coders dedicated to Blockchain will review it frequently.
As always let's locate the problem: the person in front of the screen.
It might be unfortunate but somewhere you might have screwed up. We don't know where, it could be due to a download from a wrong site, you might have downloaded another app infecting your device, let your device open and someone got access to it or something else.
But not because Electrum is insecure.
tl;dr: blaming Electrum to be insecure because you got hacked is like blaming Bitcoin to be insecure because you've lost your private key. It's BULLSHIT.
thanks for coming to my TED talk.
But one question:
Why so much funds were held on your wallet? 5k USD are a lot of money, enough for several weeks of payouts?
Normally, allocations are much smaller, lasting for around 4 weeks, not more?
Or am I just having a wrong impression?
I'm not Bounty Manager of course.
Best wishes for your recovery.